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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.
Easy J-words today.
ReplyDeleteJust begging to be put in haiku.
“We Parted (‘cuz she tarted)”
“It sure warn’t pretty,”
he croaked, “…that dirty double-
cross she pulled on me!”
~ OMK
"Lois", Chet confessed, "I almost croaked when I attended
ReplyDeleteMy first speaker meeting and heard the dirty laundry expended.
The double lives people led certainly was no pretty picture
But I quickly got used to the jargon and on Mondays I was a fixture "
[Lois rejoins]
"We must confess the past to expunge the past and get started
For without confession and making amends we'll find ourselves departed "
WC
And so the relationship progresses ...
ReplyDelete"Joking Jerk"
ReplyDeleteNed was a nerdy bloke
who would croak with laughter
at each dirty joke.
Pretty often this got him
in double trouble
and don't let me get started
about how he finally departed.
Yes, from his job he was fired
and is no longer hired.
Delightful haiku, Ol' Man Keith. I wondered if you'd be tempted to use the "f" word before you parted with your poem, but, decently, you didn't and none of us did.
ReplyDeleteAnd Chet also kept his confession to Lois decent, in spite of the dirty laundry he had to hear, Wilbur.
No, I won’t get you started, Misty, on the deets of Ned’s firing.
ReplyDeleteI will add that no “f” word occurred to me until you brought it up. But now I can only wonder which one you meant…
Along with Sandy, Wilbur, I note that Chet seems ready to “relate” even more of his past indiscretions.
With Lois’ encouragement.
The thing about old “dirty laundry” is, it never can get clean enough.
~ OMK
The milder one, OMK, the milder one.
ReplyDeleteOMK, clever to fit the J's into a haiku. Misty, Ned apparently was no nice guy and you've only shared a part of it. I suspect that more serious indiscretions than loud laughing at dirty jokes got him fired.
ReplyDeleteMy friend got into trouble for a remark he made when the gals pulled out a calculator to compute the tip.
I was carpooling with the boss and got him off extolling his IT talents vs minor non PC.
The male half of a couple showed up to get a 12 year coin. His girlfriend, now wife was with him. What a difference for her. But...
They hooked up when she was barely 6 months so those "rules" are made to be broken.
She had the best defense against a "slip" or bad relationship, she was 40lbs overweight. But he saw the beauty inside.
WC
I believe seeing the beauty inside is the secret to every good marriage, Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteFather Time robs most of us of all other assets.
What a day we have today. Starting week #2 of February with the balmy Pacific breezes wafting the clouds and haze away, leaving us with pure SoCal sunshine.
Today's temp? A sweet 80 degrees. My wife would prefer "real seasons, with snow and all," but I am content.
Hear me purrrring.
Especially when I see buzzards blotting out most of the east coast.
~ OMK
Yes, a happy day all around, we hope.
ReplyDeleteThe object of my last line should have been "blizzards," not "buzzards."
ReplyDeleteI hate the auto-correct function on my iMac KB.
But I did think this was funny.
~ OMK
I too thought buzzards was funnier than blizzards.
ReplyDeleteA blizzard of buzzards!
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