| limbo, tooth, penury, beside, one step (at a) time |
| closet, either, glance, ironic, superb, thrown, on their last legs.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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Dante was given a thorough after-life tour,
The prosperous and penurious, rich and poor.
Purgatory for souls not yet ready to rise,
Beside Limbo for souls of those not baptized.
Down to the depths, thru basement of basement,
Where shades fought tooth and nail in abasement.
For each one step up, they'd slide two back
For ever and ever, where time had no track.
How ironic when a teen-age girl is getting dressed
She says she has nothing, tho her closet is distressed!
Just a glance should tell that her selection is superb,
Plus the stuff thrown in a heap, her mother to perturb.
On any day, either school or free, the teens are in despair!
Their wardrobes may be full, but with nought to wear!
Last year it didn't matter, when a tomboy she was still,
Legs encased in jeans, tee-shirts worn, without a frill!
Sandy ~
From yesterday: you really must see Laurel & Hardy in The Music Box, maybe their very funniest film, in which they move that piano up the steepest stairs in L.A.
I think you can find it on YouTube. You will not regret it!
~ OMK
One small hint, gained the hard way...
The third word on j4 is not PRUNEY.
OMG, I just got blown away!
First, I had trouble with both jumbles today. Had to go to Dante to get one final clue for j4, but then the solution came to me after some staring at the letters. Clever theme for the poem, perhaps suggested by that first clue?
But it's the second poem that amazes me. The j6 clues were no problem, but so many relevant words were possible with the given letters that I was stumped. Finally went to the poem and saw a five-letter word that really fit. And when I got the whole solution and reread the poem, there it was, like a ladder holding up the last verse. So ingenious, so difficult to pull off. How ever do you do it, Owen?
OMK, I found it and watched it. Funny, yes, but maybe it's because the jumbles were a bit of a struggle today, maybe I'm mentally spent, but it wasn't that fall on the floor hilarious for me. Thanks for the referral, though.
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