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EDITORIAL

ARCHIVE

LAGNIAPPE

MAST

SUBMISSIONS

Poem
by A. K. Allin


woolie when (once upon a time things were warm and nice)

when yummy mum (when mom was fine)
woolie rose (warm in her bloom)
came either whither four (she begat a family of four)
da got thence allence (but dad was like the dandelion’s breath)
and dither did drab droll (growing tiresome for the breeze)
and when ither moan did fither (when a breeze arose)
snabalab did da go (he rode away on it)
da on fin fibben put (nay, not openly did he carry on)
and lave his lollies rone to fare (and let his sweet ones wield their own way in the world)
pas purse diddle did draw tight (and drew his purse strings tight)
biddle bye and throttle dry (until it was cinched and there was nothing coming out)
ennen naymore swaysen topfir (then he up and followed his blowing hair out the door)
nahdever to adare day gare (nevermore to be seen)
with lark to shirk on comin work (without thought to the seeds he was sowing)
nay one son moor (he took a second son)
and one mum moor afish (and another wife, a mother already)
hath pon the weebles dish for da (all of this was in store for dad)
da diddle do dahdart (dad encouraged another bloom)
dem fireflies rone wee aside (our porch light now but a firefly upon the lawn)
me mum and ouster da (our mom and our has-been dad)
in firm den bern of feagle fold (behold the great hearth of frail holds)
all fibbles fin ashore (all pretty shells are tossed upon the beach)