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
platycrania noun
the
condition of the skull caused by artificial flattening
There was a
certain mania
In town for
platycrania.
The men in
town with rounded heads
Were
smooshing them (then growing dreads).
They looked
a bit like stumps o’ergrown,
But this
involved just hair and bone—
Okay, and
quite a bit of skin,
But what a
quandry they were in
When women
said the look was yuck—
A sort of
hatless Donald Duck.
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