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Thursday, September 7, 2023

The Seven-Tier Itch

The folk who suffer itchy eyes: 
with that whole lot I sympathize.
For ev'ry bloke with itchy nose 
my fellow feeling only grows.
     I know; I get it: itchy ears 
will always hinder how one hears,
nor is there nowt that fully calms 
the agony of itchy palms.
     Inform me: when's an itchy throat 
not altogether get my goat!
Moreover, as for itchy skin -- 
who there amongst us hasn't been...?
    Indeed, I'm itchy ev'rywhere, 
and it's so (blank'ty-blank) unfair.
(I shall herein pass over -- natch' -- 
that patch I'm not allow'd to scratch.)  

Rev'd Spooner Meets Rev'd Carroll

He sought to thaw  each thought he saw  flee, frozen, from his mind.  He peer'd again,  then gear'd his pen,  supposin' he'd...