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 3rd
nickstick noun
a stick on
which a reckoning is kept by notches
She kept a
record of the men
Who’d
disappointed her. She’d been
Updating it
since who knows when.
She used a
nickstick, made a slice
For every
man who wasn’t nice—
Who thought
that she had had a price.
Well, years
went by relentlessly,
And one dark
day she showed to me
Her
nickstick was a redwood tree,
Now full of
notches, roots to top—
She figured
it was time to stop.
All men, she thought—a ruined crop!
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