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Monday, January 17, 2022

17 Jan. 2022

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|Smiley face| _soupy, sushi, easily, impact, missteps.
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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.

10 comments:

OwenKL said...

The chef was an expert at his trade,
He knew how every dish was made!
Knew what sauces should be stiff or soupy,
Even knew how to chop sushi or suey!

Running his kitchen was dead easy,
He only had to fix foods that were eaty.
His restaurant also featured entertainment,
To help diners digest his served aliment!

A Western band had an impact on patrons,
When they started a two-step sensation!
The chef came out to join in the glee,
But missed steps; not as easy as a recipe!

Ol' Man Keith said...

Try this one aloud—at speed.
You may see why I am inclined to add this short verse to the speech exercises used to cure actors of lazy mouths.

Impact Fact
Easily one of the many missteps
when running seafood shops
is wasting one’s manly biceps
in slinging soupy sushi slops.
~ OMK

Misty said...

"Rookie Cook"

Lucy enjoyed making sushi
and preferred it when it was juicy
though that easily made it soupy
and its texture lost impact
even when it wasn't stacked.

These missteps in her cooking
lost her her job
but she keeps looking
for work at a cafe
that will her salary pay.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Eaty?

Eaty, Owen?
Hell, yeah!
I love it when you go full Humpty-Dumpty.
OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

A nice neat job from our Misty to round off our starters today.
A solid march through her Lucy's missteps...
all the way to that recalcitrant coda!
~ OMK

Misty said...

Ol' Man Keith, I followed your suggestion and read your morning verse out loud.
You were right: your last line--slinging soupy sushi slops--cracked me up. A real treat.

Misty said...

Wonderful morning restaurant poem, Owen. I would never have imagined rhyming
"recipe" with "glee." And I've never heard of "aliment" and had to look it up: archaic for food and nourishment, apparently. Fun to learn something new in your verse.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Owen ~ I knew "aliment" previously only through association with the "alimentary tract" we studied in school.
(And maybe I recall it [a fuzzy recall] from some TV cooking show.)

But on my first scan today I thought the word was "ailment." That gave me a strange reading of your stanza: I thought the Chef was maybe some kinda "Typhoid Harry."
~ OMK
____________
PS.
But "eaty" is still my fave.

Wilbur Charles said...

I guess when soupy and sushi appear it's a fact
That restaurant jargon will surely have an impact

BTW, Owen, your Sunday poem was most excellent. One of your better ones, too, Misty

Omk, thanks for the good wishes for my Saturday C&L as well as Sandy and Misty.

WC

Ol' Man Keith said...

Dictionaries can never catch up.
They are presumptuous, calling "aliment"--or any old word--archaic.
Once we use it, it is not.