Mind the gap: Work-in-progress
She's the flinger of plurabilly teas,
She was, once-upon-a-golden-time;
And a good time it was two,
Despite the old hairy gobeen man,
Who was a-coming down a road,
drinking from a can.
She met a nice-uns-little boy name Baby Tookoo,
Her mother slopped her drat story.
Her rather had a leery face:
Sin, sin, Jesuitical-sin
………………………………….
Oh! No! For she shrew the grass darkly
Her baby, a faerie sprite,
Was so-so full o’spite:
milk white, lemon yellow, black taste, quite
She slangalong:
“Oh why is mi wife in a miner quay?
Oh! why do me words a-mutter-to me?
......
And have she a goblin’s pretty face ?
and have she a-thought o'him, me, a-man-made o’lace?
Wiv her yellowish plait
She cud fright-a-cat
But, oh! Nip! she only have her seams
She spread her dreams under me feet
Me feet, dancing dainty, to waltz her to love me.
raypool
Thu 24th Oct 2019 23:13
This is my fourth reading now, then on to the next one and the fight with Steerpike. Irresistible. We can't help but be inspired by the genius. We can dream of a vast banqueting table, you at one end and me at the other under candelabras, passing the cruets and feasting on the love of words. As you say, not many of us....