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Saturday, June 30, 2018

"Erns up early worms get sure'll..." Spinning, Spinning, Ooh, Spinning, Spinning or Little Richard of Tehran: A Constrained Nonsense Rhyme

Erns up early
worms get sure'll. 

As santurs skirl, 
fresh chap (no churl) 
sports skirts of pearl.

Fast folds, unfurling, 
cast a curl. 

He hurly-burly 
twirls; they swirl.
(If me, I’d hurl.) 

Still, dervish, whirling, 
gets the girl.

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