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Monday, December 16, 2019

A Spoonerism ("Charles Dickens...")

Charles Dickens crafts a “Carol”
mending Scrooge, once landlord feral.
Darl’s* chickens…? Fancied birds
acknowledged not in Faulkner’s words.

     Moral:
Charles’s cranks and spooks...? Just curious.
Bundren’s boy…? Unsound and furious!

     * Darl Bundren eventually goes mad in 
William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. No Bundrens
appear in the same author's The Sound and 
the Fury -- as far as this editor is aware.

Christmas Day: A Mare Egg...

     "A Mare Egg, Her Wrist, "Miss Two 'U'"