Kim Rodrigues Poet Triolet

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You can read about this disaster:

https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years-ago-today-molasses-crashes-through-bostons-north-end

Sticky Wicket

Sticky Wicket

O molasses sticky wicket -
A groaning preached of tips malaise.
In Boston’s North, ever thicket -
O molasses sticky wicket.
Each towny hand, with no picket,
And hellfire now, they could not raise.
O molasses sticky wicket -
A groaning preached of tips malaise.

An engineer they should have used.
Epic deluge - they could not swim.
Tum’ ache of tank, shouldn’t have refused.
An engineer they should have used.
A blobbish beast, to wayward, fused.
The tank was built upon a whim.
An engineer they should have used
Epic deluge - they could not swim.

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Paige Hind January 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM Wow, what a disaster - I imagined people dying in molasses... ugh... Kim Rodrigues January 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM That is what happened!

Ann Peck January 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM That is a great triolet, Kim! I take it there was a burst molasses tank? What a gooey mess! I love your "sticky wicket" :) Kim Rodrigues January 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM Happened January 15, 1919. The tank burst and killed people and animals.

Oliver Mckeithan January 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM Excellent take on the great molasses flood in Boston. What a tragedy. Kim Rodrigues January 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM Thank you! Yes, what an unusual and tragic occurence.

Anne-Lise Andresen January 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM - Epic deluge indeed... (100 years ago many people couldn't swim :) - Never read about this before... learned something new today, Kim, thanks :) - hugs Kim Rodrigues January 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM and in this one, they were brought down by molasses, both people and animals! I only heard about this last week.