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To be in love,
to be wed,
et al
you need a betrothal
Throughout your family
this bold word
will be heard:
BETROTHAL
And if
—to you—
it's all the same,
let's reduce it to
a word game
To quote Dr. C.I. Scrabble"
You don't need a goggle
to play Boggle
and you don't need a wig
to think big
And
what is really cool:
I assume you know
the Boggle rule:
—forming subsets of the original word—
the longer and bigger
newly formed words are
the better the chances of victory
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B-E-T-R-O-T-H-A-L
and you get
throb
broth
bloat
...
...
breath
bother
BROTHEL
To poeticize
forming a "subset"
—let me say—
one thing to another
does segue
That
BETROTHAL
segues into
BROTHEL
makes the mind
Wiggle and Woggle
which might name
two employees of
such an establishment
😋😋😋
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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You write pages about nuns, followed by pages about brothels.
ReplyDelete!!!
I seriously think you need to see a therapist.
I am seeing a therapist who is providing me
Deletewith a lifeboat to survive the turbulent seas
of existence and his name is
Dr. Raft
I am Dr. Raft and, at this time, all I will say
ReplyDeleteto Patient Oliverio is the following:
This page is wonderfully typical of you bizarre humor
but it comes to a troubling sudden end.
Can we discuss this at our next session?
DeleteYES we can—and must—but my hourly rate
Deletewill be doubled.
I may have to get real sponsors for this blog
Deletebut your psychoanalysis—at any cost—
will be worth every penny