Freckles: the Silliest Poem I Ever Wrote

Author's note: I dug deep into my archives chest to retrieve this piece of utter nonsense, dear readers, because I thought it would make a good submission for April Fool's Day...


Freckles!
People who have freckles
Are sometimes people who eat pickles.
But pickles have bumps,
They don't have freckles.
Bumpy people are often fickle
And won't eat pickles without freckles.
A squash with speckles might be pickled,
But is no sub for freckled pickles,
Which is being pickle fickle.
If someone earned a nickel
For every pickle with a freckle,
He'd have to gorge on hordes of pickles
Just to make one lousy nickel.
Now I'm in a poetic pickle
And my brain is overworkin',
So freckled people don't be fickle,
Avoid the sun and eat a gherkin.


Autor's PS: This piece, as I recall, started out to be a parody of the song "People" from the musical "Funny Girl", but quickly took a very sharp left turn and turned out quite differently.
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Bauer Avatar
April 1, 2023 at 2:07 PM
delightful and perfect for this silly day, jim!
Slaughter Avatar
April 2, 2023 at 8:54 AM
Thanks, Ilene....I hope you're not just being "pickle fickle".
Turner Avatar
April 1, 2023 at 1:30 PM
It's a lot of fun. Jim. Never hurts to laugh:)
Slaughter Avatar
April 1, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Glad it elicited that reaction from you, Daniel. I'm still puzzling about this one. Thanks.
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