Cucking-stools
A ballad, dating from about 1615, called "The Cucking of a Scold", illustrates the punishment inflicted to women whose behavior made them be identified as "a Scold"
Then was the Scold herself,
In a wheelbarrow brought,
Stripped naked to the smock,
As in that case she ought:
Neats tongues about her neck
Were hung in open show;
And thus unto the cucking stool
This famous scold did go
Dunking or Cucking Stools were used for women who “gossiped”
last used in 1809
Stool of Repentance has a long HISTORY!
Will it make a comeback? Bite your tongues
Yum!
Sugars and butter -
cream them together.
White and brown mix ‘round.
Flour, salt, baking powder,
vanilla…fond scent…
add chips, scoop, wait - while they bake.
choc’late chip cookie
broke in half into his cup -
splash of milk in eye
grandma and grandson munching on cookies
our laughs are grand too…splashes
occur in and outside ;)
grandma runs off…he asks:
“are you writing a poem?”
“Of course!” she winks,
as he washes the milk from his eye.
4/6/2022
reverse epulaeryu 1/3/5/5/7/5/7
senryu 5/7/5
kimo 10/7/6
free verse
dunking one toe
into the lake
before jumping in
published in my photobook A TOUR OF ASHBY LAKE, 2020
posted on September 6, 2019
“Is dunking dangerous, Uncle Jack?”
“Of course not!” the captain said. He dunked his donut in his coffee to demonstrate.
“Dunking is a great way to eat your food,” he told his nephew, Slim.
“You dunk your peanut butter cookies in your milk, don’t you?”
Slim nodded.
“I dunk potato chips in my tomato soup, don’t I?” Jack asked Slim.
They talked about all the things they liked to dunk well into the noon hour.
Glorifying the art of dunking and how wonderful it was.
“What if you don’t want to eat what you dunk?” Slim asked his uncle.
“No sense in dunking them, then” Uncle Jack replied.
That afternoon when Slim went swimming, he did not dunk anyone.
Because he did not eat people.
The lifeguard did not blow his whistle,
and he had the best swimming afternoon of his life, thanks to his Uncle Jack.
When fat people go skinny dipping it's called chunky dunking
Very appropriate I'd say, but kinda nasty such dubbing
Can't all be a skinny-ma-links
At least your body doesn't stink
Fat people don't smell too but I'll let you do the judging