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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
A couple days ago, I started reducing the high-res version to a square. It still looked real good, and was still truly sharper than the slightly blurry colored one. But today, that butte looked stubby, so I left it at the full ratio. But it has a hard time competing with the version ablaze with color, veins running like so many aortas running up the sides of the cliff.
ReplyDeleteFLN, Misty ~ I am not sure whether you saw my response to your verse yesterday, but I posted an appreciation of your Max's narrative.
ReplyDeleteToday's reply, a brief vendetta ~
Imagine "Gene" has just seen an innocent girl exposed to crude harassment by a large male bully.
And the insult was a...
"Real Beaut!"
Ablaze with revenge,
Gene feels hot blood pump
beyond his aorta,
from the spine to the rump
to truly support a
psychophysical defense
of the mistreated wench!
~ OMK
"Crazy Romance"
ReplyDeleteJoey loved Julie truly
even when she was unruly.
But she had a lot of zeal
and often cooked him a real meal,
and act that gave her much appeal.
So, in order to amaze
her, Joey showered her with praise,
words that set her heart ablaze.
She did instantly respond
telling him he was beyond
anyone she had found fond.
Her words pounded his aorta,
made him happy he could court her,
and without any further dispute,
Joey married Julie on a butte.
I did very much appreciate your kind words about Max, Ol' Man Keith. And am happy that Gene is willing to support that poor mistreated wrench.
ReplyDeleteI've never used the word 'butte' in my life and had to look it up to see how it was pronounced. Hope it made my last rhyme correct.
Remember Firesign Theater?
ReplyDeleteText / Audio?
Exerpt --
WAGON BOSS: Here, Injun! Ya want some firewater?
INDIAN: No. We were warned by our Elders not to drink anything that would make us weak or silly.
WAGON BOSS: (laughs) Put in their well!
INDIAN: That's not a well. It's the Eye of the Holy Serpent Mound, on which you're standing.
WAGON BOSS: It's a butte!
INDIAN: No, it's a mound.
WAGON BOSS: And right purty, too! er- can ya' move it?
INDIAN: But - why?
WAGON BOSS: Railroad's comin' thru! Right now!
LOL, Owen!
ReplyDeleteDamn railroads!
They got away with murder, just to link us coast-to-coast. We remember the Golden Spike from school days, but not so much the Natives who were displaced, or the Chinese laborers whose crops were tossed aside.
BTW, I have come to like the high res cartoon more than the others color or B/W. Or maybe it is enjoyable by contrast. I like seeing the low-res first, then scrolling onto the sharper image.
Thank you for showing them.
I was sorta aware of Firesign Theater, but never really followed it. I knew one of the co-founders, Phil Proctor, from Yale. He was an undergrad when I was in the grad drama school.
Coincidentally, Phil dated my first wife, overlapping for a month or so when she was playing the lead in a show his college sponsored ("The Fantasticks). A nice, polite guy.
Die Welt is klein department.
~ OMK
Misty ~ Yes, your use of "butte" was quite correct, at least in its pronunciation. As to its practicality as a wedding site, that's another matter of course.
ReplyDeleteAnd I suppose its general inaccessibility was intentional, as it makes the fantastic portion of their wedding fantasy all the more surreal!
"Gene" was a late addition to my verse. He had no name for most of his genesis, but the more he became devoted to helping some poor gal, the more I reckoned he deserved a real moniker.
I simply found myself so committed to the physiology of his emotional state, I realized I needed a rationale for all that feeling.
That's how the "wench" was added (I needed a rhyme for "revenge), and once she came into the picture, he earned his name.
You can see how late her entry was by tracking the rhyme scheme of the stanza.
ABC BCA [and then another] A!
My guess is that you name your characters early on. It gives the reader a sense of intimacy; we all have some associations we connect to the names you choose.
And you often pair your couples by sharing their initials, a sweet "flavoring."
Joey and Julie are especially tasty, as each aims to better the other--either through a fancy meal or the praise with which it's rec'd, or even in the thanks for that praise!
(We're told Julie is "unruly," but I think that's a bit deceptive, right...?)
Your mix of couplets and triplets sustains interest. Would you believe I started my piece today in couplets? I often do, as they are the easiest form to rhyme. But as a work develops I see if I can find the scheme that more naturally tracks the tale, esp. one that offers a little, er... "surprise."
~ OMK
F***in' auto-correct!
ReplyDeleteOwen, erratum:
For "crops," please read "corpses."
(Is this how history gets rewritten?)
~ OMK
I messed up too, OMK: Gene supported a poor 'wench,' not a poor 'wrench.'
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought you meant a poor "wretch."
ReplyDelete~ OMK