Fig Tales

Ficus fracas
Benjamina
What a little prig!

Time to chop
you mallaprop;
Can’t produce a fig!

Righteous ficus 
Carica
never be discountin’

Grabbed that little
benjie snot, and
drowned him 
in the fountain.

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H/T to Gershon Wolf's Ficus Fracas
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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