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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Honest Buckman lived down to his name.
ReplyDeleteHe looked at life as a suckers game.
If executioners were still in vogue
They knew what to with an incorrigible rogue.
Meeting the ax-man, he wouldn't need a hat-check.
No place to put it, at the drop of a hatchet!
Those days were past, so Honest worked a plan
To scam some fat cats, with parlors so grand.
First he'd approach as a ghost-writing author,
Who'd write a tract on any subject in offer.
Then he'd find an obscure book or thesis,
Retype it as a manuscript, changing little pieces.
Self-help for salesmen was a popular topic,
And a real estate mogul was an easy pick!
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The man was a fraud.
He sat in the parlor
and hour by hour
authored tracts on his “God.”
He was not a believer,
gave no damn about doubt,
cadged a buck a handout,
this old fake & deceiver.
All that he knew, the lean & the fat,
could fit in the trash bin, or cram in his hat.
~ OMK
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PS. His only dispute
was with female converts.
He flirted with skirts
who got him “MeToo”’d.
Morning dilemma: offer no poem, or offer one of the worst ever?
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The author had a daughter
and he instructed and taught her
to avoid any kind of fraud.
He wrote her a vivid tract
on how to elude being hacked
or sacked or whacked.
The girl now does not much chafe,
staying in her parlor feels safe.
By refusing to get into a spat,
she's at peace at the drop of a hat.
Today's j-words seem to have moved all three authors to deal with rogues. The words triggered Owen and me to describe a conman and a hypocrite, while Misty wrote of a father who warns his daughter against such predators.
ReplyDeleteOf the tracts proposed today, I have to salute Misty's father for penning a potent three-way punch, protecting his gal from "being hacked/ or sacked or whacked"!
That definitely stirred my sleepy brain!
WooHoo! Kiplingesque, I calls it!!
~ OMK
Yes, it was interesting to see Owen's poem about a con man with the curious name of Honest Buckman, and I don't even want to think about what Ol' Man Keith's fraud considers a 'god.' Very clever verses and, as always, in very elegant--if very different--styles. Thank you both--you saved my poetically weary day!
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