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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.
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The ‘60s & early ‘70s were a special time,
not the best era for unadventurous dweebs.
Try a little time travel, but…
”Park thy Nerds!“
It’s been donkey’s ears since that simmering summer,
when we felt the yeasty spirit of rebellion.
Free love, LSD; Woodstock was a stunner!
Joni Mitchell was our laureate, Janis our hellion.
Remembered visions are split by a scene wiper
between the innocent Beatles and the Manson viper.
~ OMK
"Sad Speller"
Nelly was one of those nerds
who loved playing with words.
She thought she was an excellent typer,
but she was a useless error wiper.
While writing about a 'donkey'
she misspelled him as a 'monkey.'
Feeding a domestic beast
became serving a feast of 'yeast.'
Her future as a writer got slimmer
as mistakes continued to simmer.
Now her errors are so off the mark
her career is in the dark.
Solution? Meh!
Thank goodness Mark Twain would not have stooped to playing on that word.
I like very much how your “sad speller,” Misty, made sense from the first stanza through the last.
This one didn’t feel like it was wandering, running anywhere the rhymes might go, but the throughline of Nelly’s character stayed consistent as the basis for humor. Cool.
~ OMK
Many thanks, Ol' Man Keith. I loved the way we both rhymed 'words' with 'nerds.'
And I loved the way you evoked that era of the sixties with LSD, and Woodstock, and Joni Mitchell. I stumbled onto a TV program last night focused entirely on that early music and one of the singers and guests was Judy Collins. A total delight.
What a time it was, eh, Misty?
It was an age of contrasts (Nixon as president, landing on the moon, Vietnam, Woodstock) yet we sensed a unity in the nation, unlike now.
Essential values aligned back then.
When Nixon crossed the line, the GOP joined the Dems in pushing him out.
Ah, well, I guess (hope?) it all evens out in the end...
~ OMK
Yes, we can only hope and pray that countries and factions stay relatively peaceful and that the viruses don't get too much worse. Oh, and that we continue to have a healthy and peaceful old age. (probably much more, but these are at least a few priorities)
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