Quandary Resolved
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The wheels fell off my thingamajig
as a thingy
came loose in the whachamacallit
or perhaps it was the doodad
on the wotsit
which was the cause to stall it
and it'll take a few odds 'n...
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Categories:
doohickey, fun, humor, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Royalty in the What Not Shelf
...Doohickey thought she should wear the crown
Gizmo huffed off in her greenish gown
Dofunny Dingus laughed and got crazy sick
Steam on the What-not-shelf was truly thick....
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Categories:
doohickey, humor,
Form: Rhyme
An Interior Mechanism
...On the inside of the doohickey
is the cogwheel thingamajig.
And that thingamajig keeps the thingy working well.
It turns and cranks and circles around and round
like the second hand on an analog ...
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Categories:
doohickey, heart,
Form: Free verse
Fantastic Words
...A closer look at a fantastic word
And no, I’m not talking in bafflegab
To not repeat this speak is just absurd
To absquatulate like a fracas herd
Throw a foofaraw over a little jab
A closer lo...
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Categories:
doohickey, fun, words,
Form: Villanelle
My Mind Plays Games
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thingamabob
unreal, unknown
maddening, bewildering, puzzling
doohickey, widget ~ gizmo, contraption
entertaining, guessing, laughing
funny, not funny
whatchamacallit
Aug...
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Categories:
doohickey, 11th grade, games,
Form: Diamante
Childhood Christmas
...Circa - approximately early
to late nineteen sixties,
where yours truly
found himself surly,
particularly compounded
if my parents,
where Mister and
Missus Santa Claus
played b...
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Categories:
doohickey, addiction, allusion, angel, christmas,
Form: Bio
Dell the Farmer
...DELL THE FARMER
Once lived a farmer named Dell Doohickey.
Not hungry to learn, manners are sticky.
Sorry he ain’t.
Say please, he cain’t.
He would eat his words if not so picky.
8/13/2017...
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Categories:
doohickey, humor,
Form: Limerick
Lunchtime At the Nursing Home
...Hungry for munchies, on his way to the lunchroom,
a rambunctious, persnickety,“fuss-budget”, elderly
jittery, fidgety, geezer, named Cassidy…
whose questionable dexterity, aghast by a massive sneeze...
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Categories:
doohickey, funny, people, old, old,
Form: Narrative