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Todayโs Jumble haiku:
(It can be argued whether more nut jobs are to be found in cities or in outlying areas. It may depend on the particular kinds of pressure to be found in each environment,
& how external signs trigger internal chemistryโฆ)
โHot Spots?โ
The batty-making
glandโs hotter where โtis cray-crayโ
maybe the suburbs?
~ OMK
Adults could learn a lesson in relaxation from the little ones.
Taught (by a non-)Taut Tot
HIs sweat glands made his clothes seem ratty,
It was driving him somewhat batty.
The suburbs were hotter than Hades,
And felt more like the Everglades.
Power outages limited the AC
To settings fair to middling, not drafty.
But his carefree toddler was happy
Running naked in the backyard sprinkler.
"Recovery"
Susan lived in a suburb
where she was struck by a car on the curb.
The experience injured her hand,
and also infected a gland,
and left her a bit batty
though she still talked and was chatty.
In the summer the weather became hotter
and this did on occasion bother her.
But she took a class that taught her
to enjoy the extra time that this bought her.
So Susan is now once again well,
and her life is again happy and swell.
CanadianEh! ~ Your toddler has a blissful solution, one that takes energy consumption and environmental impact into consideration. Indeed. It is the right answer for all of us, if we werenโt constrained by fussy social norms and poor self images.
My haiku is a bit silly, but it is influenced by a very serious report that challenges the common presumption that life in urban areas is more highly pressured than in outlying rural and suburban regions. Specifically, that the number of suicides is far greater away from big cities.
I had no idea.
~ OMK
That must be a very popular class, Misty, the one that Susan took.
โจIt seems to have provided answers for everything from physiological damage at the glandular level to the sweltering effect of climate change.
โจWe should all have access to such a class!
(And Iโm happy to know Susan was not negatively affected by not living in a city [see above].)
โจI enjoyed your rhymes too, especially โhotter/bother her,โ the way it does a trick with your rhythm. Good job!
~ OMK
Ol' Man Keith, what a mysterious verse you gave us this morning? What is a "nut job"?
And what is a "cray-cray"? Very interesting, but very mysterious!
And thank you for your very kind comment on my verse. Greatly appreciated!
CanadianEh!, my goodness, what miserable hot weather your poor fellow has to deal with. I bet he'd love to copy his toddler, but that could get him into a lot of trouble. Any chance he could just get a cold shower? Anyway, I hope he survives his hot day.
Sorry, Misty! I didnโt think my slang was all that obscure.
Nut jobs = nutty (or foolish) people.
Cray-cray = crazy.
I asked my wife whether the latter should be spelled with โKsโ (phonetically) or โCs.โ She opted for โCsโ without hesitation.
Her familiarity suggests that itโs not all that esoteric.
~ OMK
Sorry I am late getting back to the party.
OMK- I too was not aware of those dire stats for the suburbs. You did a nice job with the batty words we were given today. I knew โnut jobโ, but had to look up โcray-crayโ - a regionalism maybe, since Misty didnโt know it either.
Misty- interesting that your choice of a rhyming word for suburb was โcurbโ, a CW fill today. I too enjoyed your varied rhymes in the second verse. We all should have a class that teaches us how to enjoy our extra time. Lessons that can change a person like Susan from โbatty and chattyโ to โhappy and swellโ are worth the tuition fee.
Thanks to you both for your comments on my naked toddler. We should all be so comfortable.
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