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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(A sad trigger warning! A police report from the “Chocolate Factory” states the result of a haunting rampage. A vicious anti-Little Person hacker loaded chunks of corpses, but ran out of sacking.)
”Axe Tort Squeeze”
Sixty eerie bags
of burlap can’t hold Oompa
Loompas’ petite parts.
~ OMK
FLN, CanadianEh!
ReplyDeleteYes, I see Wilbur managed to get three prongs into his verse. I must credit him for that, a sign that his long quiet time between C&L installments has not been wasted but devoted to upping his numbers along with his lines & rhymes.
You mention Misty’s wisdom in holding Thanksgiving in a restaurant, and that brought back a memory to me, of one lonely Thanksgiving when I was away from home, busy starting up a new theater company.
My co-director (and flatmate) and I found a small, underlit restaurant. We ordered turkey, of course, and it came with weak gravy, mashed potatoes, & green beans. Tepid.
As I chewed the meat, it felt wrong to eat it w/o seeing the big browned roast bird sharing the table.
The two of us had nothing but business to discuss.
I think a restaurant might be fun for a big group outing, but for just two—who are missing their families—it felt even lonelier than just one.
~ OMK
C-eh, I'm sure it was indeed her garter that Lois tossed.
ReplyDeleteFrom my usual flower starter, lucky guess to a fish, to the bathroom tile
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Text Her Please
ReplyDeleteIt must have been nineteen-sixty
When that bathroom had been built.
The grout was grimy, the vibes eerie,
As she gutted, she felt no guilt.
Though petite, she pounded through the walls,
Filled the burlap bags with scrap.
Don’t interrupt with calls
Emojis only - she needs a nap.
"Advisor Advice"
ReplyDeletePatty was neat and petite,
and an expert who charged big fees
although she would never cheat,
nor did her clients tease.
When she turned sixty
she began to feel eerie,
and decided to take a nap
so she could think of her future,
while wrapped in warm burlap.
In the end she consulted an expert
who told her her strength to assert.
Patty is now back in business
and feeling no longer hurt.
I am greatly impressed by both CanadianEh & Misty's contributions today.
ReplyDeleteThe former reaches all the way back to 1960 to remove the old grout and rescue a bathroom. Her worker, "Though petite," does a thorough job and earns a nap. I have no doubt the renovation will continue when she wakes, and it will lead to a shiny new facility.
The latter gives us "Patty," an expert in her field. While her area remains a mystery, we trust she is worth her "big fees."
She is another napper, and she has a thing for "warm burlap." It apparently relieves "eerie" feelings.
Upon awakening, she--an expert herself--consults another expert, and she is right as rain!
Both poems took us briefly into the lives of effective workers and smart nappers.
~ OMK
OMK- you do give us a grim (but I LOLed) haiku using those J words. Again, we took the J answer in different directions for our titles. And then my title usually sets me on a certain train of thought for my poem.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that Misty and I both used nap (and it wasn’t a J word). Probably the rhyming with burlap (which was a hard word to incorporate today - I thought about the old potato sack races).
I wondered why Misty’s Patty would use a burlap blanket, since I presumed she could afford better with her big fees. Glad that you pointed out the use of burlap to Felice eerie feelings. I must find an old sack.
Misty- something about being sixty can trigger women into wondering if they are “all washed up” because of their age. Few men think that way. I’m glad that Patty was able to recover her mojo.
WC- I thought you might have mixed up the g words. But the imagery of Lois throwing the girdle was hilarious.
BTW, “girdle” is a funny word—in both senses of the word, amusing and odd.
ReplyDeleteThe first dictionary definition is “a belt or cord worn around the waist.” Sometimes any encircling “belt or cord.”
Our familiarity with it as a belly-squeezing form-contorting undergarment is still fairly recent.
Last thought:
I thought of posting about the watchdog that growled,
“‘Grrr… ‘ Outspoken as ever, the burly Appenzeller was not just a pet, it even sicced steely-tough villains!
‘Ere!’ called his Cockney handler, ‘Ere! ‘E ain’t afeared o’ nuffin’!”
But then, I thought better of it.
~ OMK
Darn autocorrect That should be “relieve eerie feelings”, not Felice
ReplyDeleteYour haikus always crack me up, OMK, and today's was especially funny.
ReplyDeleteFeel sorry for your lady with the crummy bathroom, CanadianEh!--maybe we should get a collection to offer her a renovation.
Glad to see you, Wilbur. And we missed you, Owen.
Have a good weekend, everybody.
I elected to post tonight's
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I hope folks will check before going to Saturday
Speaking of...
I have "finished" Saturday's xword in the sense of filling all the boxes. It might be the hardest yet
WC
Hi, Wilbur ~ I checked before posting on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteI came back--briefly--to congratulate you on your Wordle in four!
Fairly tough one. I wanted to give it the ol' heave-O! Terrific as it was!
~ OMK