Wordbirds, 68

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 3r

opsimath noun

a person who begins to learn late in life

He'd taken quite a different path—

But he was cool, the opsimath.

He knew that never’s worse than late,

And since he’d never found a mate,

He thought he’d be a college guy—

At least he’d give the thing a try.

So off he went to Harvard, where

He fell in love with English—rare,

I know, but so it is with Love:

It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking of.

And literature brought to his life

Both passion and a loving wife,

Another opsimath who found

Him reading lines by Ezra Pound.