Wordbirds, 76

AT LAST—We’ve now commenced our third—and final—journey through Webster’s 3rd. This time, I’m picking a word near the middle 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 3^rd.

whiskery adj.

having or resembling whiskers

She loved the dude so very much—

Oh, love’s a mystery.

Her only reservation was—

He seemed so whiskery.

She said, “Oh, Samson, won’t you shave?

I’ll like it very much,”

And Samson said, “Of course I will—

Don’t care ’bout hair and such.”

And so he shaved; he cut his hair—

An acquiescent kind—

But you, of course, well know his fate:

Yes, hairless, very blind.

It's Moral Time! What can we say

About demands of love?

Be careful what you cut away;

And what you're thinking of.