| abide, cloak, hermit, chisel, shake (the) habit. |
| salmon, padded, unhook, clever, locale, bushel, reckless
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
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Pygmalion the sculptor could not abide
The women he saw on every side.
They'd shake their bodies to exhibit
Their pulchritude. They did it by habit.
He retired to his studio to chisel a statue
Of a perfect woman, of grace and virtue.
He devoted himself, without play or pity.
He became a hermit in amidst the city.
He carved her naked, without even a cloak
That her form was clear, to love invoke.
Then to Aphrodite he prayed for a favor,
That his statue be given a life to savor!
"Are you sure, Pyggie?" asked the goddess,
"I'll do it, but you'll regret it. I'm honest!"
His statue from her pedestal stepped down,
White as snow, save her eyes of brown!
She slapped Pygmalion with her palm of stone!
"That's for the pain of your chisel's hone!"
She struck him again, and blackened his eyes!
"I can feel my breasts are of different sizes!"
She punched him in his solar plexus
"That's for your lust, the size of Texas!
I've seen in your eyes that lewd look,
As if I wore a bra, just for you to unhook!"
She kneed him in the locale of his crotch
"That's for the way you caressed my notch!
You're single-minded as a spawning salmon
With a bushel of sperm in your cannon!
She padded around his wretched carcass.
An avatar of the #MeToo band's darkness.
With reckless abandon she flailed him,
That hapless sculptor, poor Pygmalion!
I had better qualify. I am mostly in sympathy with the #MeToo movement. Rape is a detestable crime. Workplace harassment should not have a place. But it sometimes goes too far. Movies of a generation ago will be inexplicable to a generation hence if the trend continues at its current pace.
However, this poem was not intended to be #MeToo bashing. The j4 portion was only intended as a comic twist on a familiar myth. When Erato added the j6 section, it took a malevolent turn beyond where I had intended to go with it.
Cartoons colorized by meem.
Explanations understood; no problem, Owen. The poems go together well and illustrate by exaggeration, I think.
The j4 had easy clues, and the solution came after just a few moments looking at the letters. Cute.
The j6 clues were generally not difficult either, but the solution gave me fits. I stared and stared. Finally did look at the poem; didn't consciously see the solution, but it must have stirred a recognition, because then I realized after a minute or so what the second part must be. After that the first part was easy. Clever idea, but somehow the adjective doesn't seem appropriate -- maybe careful or rapid makes more sense, though it doesn't fit the idiom??? Oh well.
Owen, might the j6 be "a-band-done"??
Sandy: quite probably. My computer hasn't been able to fully interact with any of the Jumble sites for weeks, so I had no way to verify my solutions.
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