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Monday, June 20, 2022

Before, Miss Mupp (11)

Before, Miss Mupp, you flub it up,
you might just write it down.
Is it, when blurbs cry out for verbs,
not craft to draft a noun...?
     As tragedy expands, you'll see 
it's no mean feat to clown.
Nor be you keen on bein' green
when all you've been is brown.
     You can't abide the countryside,
but fled the dreaded town.
If pennies bought one tender thought, 
how many'd buy a crown...?
     When silly isles engender smiles,
which landscapes spawn a frown...? 
Would you be saved had you but waved...?
Or were you sure to drown...?

Transparency; or, How Did We Read Him...? Let Us Count The Ways.

(In every appearance in the verses below of the word 'read' except the final one, that word should be pronounced /red/.) We read him...