If you’ll be my Valentine you can have a ball of twine. If twine is not a thing you like I’ll rip for you a spoke from my bike. If you’re not thrilled when I speak of a spoke I’ll get you a cobra, and that’s not a joke. I have one here somewhere. I […]
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Ingredients you will need: 1 penguin Several thousand gulls, enough to blanket a small island a small island Name your penguin Hermione and teach her to obey commands such as: stay, come, sing. Place her at one end of the small island. Walk to the opposite end of the island after commanding Hermione to stay. […]
There is a snowman on my head. I’m wearing socks, one blue, one red, hopping on one foot into town clutching a pillow of eiderdown. – The pillow bursts and feathers fly. How did this happen? Why, oh why? The snowman melts. I slink from town covered in fluffs of eiderdown.
The plank considered itself blessed to be the topmost plank on the pile of planks in the hold of the ship. Its constant yapping about its mountain origins and its trip through the sawmill and the long bumpy ride on the wagon before being swung aboard by some kind of pulley contraption was, to put […]
While pondering a rhyme for thimble, reject at all costs using bimble. Your brain might be considered nimble if it went with a word like symbol, the same, but different, from cymbal. There is, of course, no word spelled simble which brings us back to the unword bimble which you must not rhyme with thimble.
The Wand of Life removed the tamale pie in its ruddy earthenware casserole from the oven, placed it on a crocheted potholder at the center of the mahogany table, and admired the heat-glazed golden amber color of the cornmeal topping. “Kids! Dinner!” she called. “I don’t want any! I ate four boxes of Milk Duds […]
While the other socks clumped together and gossiped in the hamper, the angular sock eased under a pillowcase and brooded. No one liked her, not even her partner. The angular sock clearly heard her partner jabbering and complaining to the others about the angular sock’s shortcomings. Her stripe was flawed. Her toe had that awful […]
The oh so pure and crystal clear little marble orb, fair glowing with pride, presented herself to be gilded by feathery brushes and lifted into the place of honor at the apex of the centerpiece on the Royal Table in the Hall of Kings there in the Queen‘s castle. Jack came by at ten to […]
“This is my poem all about bears. It’s not about chickens. It’s not about pears. It’s not about clumsily tumbling downstairs. In fact, as I noted, it’s all about bears. The first part’s about a grizzly and panda taking high tea on a random veranda. The next part’s about a white bear most polar angrily […]
