Pulchritudinous looks, unscrupulous ways hook
Junoesque one apart, pneumatic in mouthpart
Those coconut-like callipygian haunts cull
Leave alone howling wolves, despite being ourselves!
Jerry, a jim-dandy jezebel in a jerkwater town,
Jiggled her jangles, joking her jubilant ways up and down.
Juicily Junoesque and jocular, Jerry jawed with the best.
Such jiggery-pokery was soon put to this jerky town’s test.
Jailbirds jammed the sidewalks to see Jerry walk by.
Her jabberwocky jabbering gave them a reason to sigh.
A jaunty jokester with joyous absolute joviality,
Jerry was accepted as the jubilant jezebel of this locality.
My naive picture of Burlesque
Some lovely ladies junoesque
Slapstick humor risky
Dancers rather frisky.
Mom would consider it grotesque.
For Miranda's contest
won an hm
HER FAVORITE BONNET
Wife loved her black-and-white bonnet
With a sort of bow at the back.
Believe me I’m no expert on it
But it was awful - most of it was black
And it looked horribly like a tail, long and slack.
She asked me how it seems.
I lied and said very picturesque,
Especially the hand-sewn seams -
Makes you look statuesque,
Maybe even Junoesque
I didn’t want to hurt her with my real thought
(From some angles it was dalamatian-esque)
Though I suppose I really ought
(from others it was more zebra-esque ;
And the hanging tail looked skunk-esque).
Went to get something pretty to suit her, to give her.
Bought a big green-and-purple thing on sale;
And the other hat I dropped in the river.
She said but it’s not black and white - it’s pale;
And where’s me favourite bit, its tail?!
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