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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(There are many aversions to things, some without names, including one in which rustic bandits would thrust their ill-gotten gains into zippered bags, and later discover their loot would be diminished by seven-eighths. Naturally, they grew to loathe such ways to secure the booty.
They could only recover their full amount by dividing the sum into several bags, and thus avoid…)
“Haply, Slim Pelf”
This phobia im-
peled yokels to fear zippers.
They’d just fasten eight.
~ OMK
I started with a common Bot word, moved to a pig’s nose and then was up to that point in time.
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Our hero with OCD finds it impossible to
ReplyDeleteHappily Aim (at) Self
Slowly he fastened the flannel shirt.
Playing the country yokel
Was his Halloween joke.
Since his phobia was dirt,
He was impelled to add liquid soap.
It was his only way to cope,
Until he squirted himself in the eye,
Which made him cry and sigh.
OMK- I chuckled at your convoluted backstory today. Your yokels had aversions while mine had full blown OCD. I am wondering why you included zippers today (zipper was a J word several days ago)? Or were you sent in that direction by “fasten”?
ReplyDeleteI included the W and O words (the O was several days behind IMO) which created more issues. I am not enamoured if my creation today. And the Spooner title choices were crazy!
"Success"
ReplyDeleteAmong a few classmates who were local,
Len was considered a yokel.
His phobia did him impel
some personal stories to tell,
which his enemies called a lie
although evidence he did apply.
Soon Len fastened his reputation as a poet
because his verses did clearly show it.
Now no longer do his classmates object,
because Len had earned himself some respect.
CanadianEh! ~ I just needed a 2-syllable fastener, so why not the most recent one?
ReplyDeleteThe harder challenge was the title. Yours is more sensible. Mine gave me "Pelf," and that had a lot to do with my backstory.
Your yokel story paid tribute to the holiday, a neat topical choice. I like how you tied his phobia into it.
Misty ~ A smart move on your part, to connect the fiction we would-be poets employ to the liars we sometimes must be! I am trying (and failing) to remember who it was who said (and I paraphrase): "Of all lies, art is the most truthful."
~ OMK
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PS. It was Flaubert!
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Ol' Man Keith, fun comments and haiku, many thanks. Were your bandits trying to avoid paying 'duty.' They certainly wouldn't avoid a 'cutie', or a 'foodie,' (too many letters).
ReplyDeleteAnd many thanks for giving me that lovely Flaubert quote.
My heart aches for your poor hero, CanadianEh!. Getting soap in your eyes must be one of the worst things that can happen to you at Halloween.
I’m late getting back. Thanks for the comments.
ReplyDelete(OMK- the O word today was that recent holiday!)
Misty- I’m glad that Len finally earned some respect as a poet. You used the J words well.