Wordbirds, 34

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 …

syrma noun. [SUR-muh]

a trailing robe worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece

His syrma was a bit too long—

He feared that he would slip.

And sure enough he wasn’t wrong:

The crowd gasped—saw him trip.

The marble was a bit too hard—

They heard an awful clunk!

They dragged him out into the yard

To give him aid and junk.

Well, he woke up an altered man—

A man most changed of men.

And back then where it all began,

He said: “I will not act again!”