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Reply To Aunt Mabel's Annual Spring Letter

My Dear Aunt Mabel, I am responding to your Annual Spring Letter
And hope you are recovering from the bloat, and feeling much better,
I wanted you to know that, with the cold, I am wearing the sweater
Since it came from England, I feel like I’m an international jet-setter!
I sliced my finger on the juicer, so now, to the doctor I am a debtor,
I am hoping that misfortune won’t cause my finger to develop a tetter
Be sure to tell me if Aunt Fay’s son, Sid, is still locked in the fetter.
Is Aunt Lula Fay’s gay nephew, well …, uh, I hear he’s a real go-getter.
Is it true, what I hear, that he works for the space program as a vettor?
Aunt Mabel, thinking it would be good if you adopted an Irish Setter….
This spring, it seems to me, is much colder and most definitely wetter.
Well, I must close. It’s late. Looking forward to your next letter.
P.S. I bought a new Bissell! A friend asks if you can teach him to whistle! 

written April 16, 2022

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Tom Cunningham

Date: 6/9/2022 12:18:00 PM

It's great to keep in touch with your Auntie Mabel, I hope she's minted lol. Tom

L Milton Hankins
Date: 6/9/2022 12:35:00 PM

Tom, I invented Aunt Mable sometime ago as an avenue for some humorous poetry. She writes occasionally, and I respond in kind. Sometimes when the well runs dry, I can always fall back on Aunt Mable!

Reason A. Poteet

Date: 4/22/2022 6:03:00 AM

Marvelous monorhyme. Last line must be an inside joke. I'm inclined to think that 140 year old Bissell has worked hard to relieve any whistling in their products.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/22/2022 7:05:00 AM

Thanks so much. Actually, the two sentences are unrelated. I had mentioned in a previous poem re Aunt Mabel that I needed to tell her I had bought a new Bissel. A comment playing on the monorhyme wanted to know if Aunt Mabel could teach him to whistle.

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/17/2022 9:12:00 PM

Darling from beginning to last word Hank.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/18/2022 8:17:00 AM

Thank you so much, Caren. My fictional Aunt Mabel has provided some much needed inspiration from time to time. I think this is our fourth or fifth exchange.