We’ve commenced
our journey backward through Webster’s 3rd. I’m picking a word near the end of
each entry for each letter—a word that interests me for some reason or a word
I’d not ever known before—and surrounding it with a frayed coat of doggerel.
Words that flew
into my life from Webster’s 3rd …
byzen [or bizen] noun
a
disgraceful spectacle or example [from OE bisen]
[English dialect term]
That byzen
really spoiled his rep—
And now he’d
better watch his step:
The women
think he’s off the chart;
His boss
thinks it is time to part;
The
press—both old and very new—
Are filing
stories … much ado!
And now that
he has sobered up,
He sees that
even his new pup
Wants
nothing more to do with him.
And so he
travels to the rim
Of Arizona’s
canyon grand;
He leaps … I
wonder where he’ll land?
Perhaps
there in the river mud—
Or on the
rocks? Oh, such a dud
Our crazy
friend turned out to be:
One byzen,
then … eternity.
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