FINAL DECISION
Bright is the moon shining pale white
Might the time be now this dark night
Resigned in both the heart and mind
Kind thoughts remain so hard to find
Feel sympathy when pain is real
Peel away what one cannot steal
Until one needs to make a will
Still requiring a codicil
SIGIL
It makes no sense, nor ever will
I felt that misty morning chill
Tense, like the strings of a guitar
An experience, quite bizarre
A void that nobody could fill
Weary from slumber yet so still
As my thoughts I must now distil
Life is just etching on my soul
It makes no sense
Any scent of lilacs is nil
No inspiration for my quill
The hidden words I can’t cajole
I sigh at pointless rigmarole
Meaning now a mere codicil
It makes no sense
Deposited, held in Amazon's Adonis arms
Hidden inhospitably stashed, kite shadow
Curled furtive, stairway stupefied windshield
Hallucinations lag languished in amusement
Monkeys freeze, screech scamper scratch
Egg smooth roof unscathed cubby abode
Jagged gaps hang fur curtain climbing mates
Swung carefree in cramped homecamp humid
Aghast lopped log rest exhales raggedly
Snapped propeller askew salutes defeat
Wing bent lungs transform fortitude into fuel
Crushed accordion bodied anaconda swivels
Lock jaw latch tight to jungle gym frame
Liquid flow flanks scale, giant slug glued
Fork tongue tastes rain drip following day hope
Fangs prong Coconas sour tomato gold codicil
Cluster juice burst berries, bittersweet bulbs
Knobs of Contreu twisted tangerine vitamin
Fibre feeds faith indispensible, thin torsos entwined
Fight against forbode of abandonment, exhausted
Anonymous Minor Survivors
Middle of Jungle June
Shemp Howard has a special problem today.
He receives an inheritance from his Uncle Caleb who passed away.
One condition exists that does not seem too funny:
Shemp must prove he's married before he gets the money.
In the legal document, there is a strange codicil:
The stooge has to get married within 48 hours of the will.
He has proposed to women who all think he's a creep.
This seems like a mountain to climb that is too steep.
Shemp meets Miss Hopkins who mistakes him for Cousin Basil.
Miss Hopkins gives Shemp a beating that is just brutal.
Along comes Shemp's student who nobody thinks is choice.
Miss Dinkelmeyer is not good looking, and has a terrible voice.
If you wonder what the conclusion of this episode will be:
Get the video and have a look-see.
Based on the 1947 Columbia Pictures short subject "Brideless Groom" starring the Three Stooges.
Limerick crochetés: Once Fukushima Lady Uranium
Once Fukushima Lady Uranium
Madly in love with Hanford Plutonium
Sent him hot-kissed missile
Twice Hiroshima smile:
“R.S.V.P. Pluto to Uranus in mime!”
Missile misfired detoured Koreanium
O’er Kamchatka harassed by Putt-Inn-ium
Security Council
Issued stark Codicil
“Pacific love letters: ‘Putt-Inn-Bin, Hmh!’ “
Then lovesick Mamasan Uranium
Stole Crime-ian Green Card made in Elysium
KGB stamp fossil
Put Putt-Inn behind grill
So cut through Alaska helped by Pale-Inn-Yum!
At last Mamasan came close to Plutonium
At Hanford received no hugs in delirium
Sat by waste river spill
Her heart sank without thrill
Till Pluto-Uranus sang the Union Hymn!
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
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