Keeping Abreast

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The Prompt: You’ve been given the power to change one rule of nature.  What would it be?

This is one of those prompts that cries out not to be taken seriously, mainly because every time we’ve tried to interfere with nature, things have turned out badly. With that in mind, I will resort to farce and hyperbole!

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Keeping Abreast

If I were made the ruler of
this universe I rue and love,
the one thing I would not let “be”
is the force of gravity
in respect to just one issue.
Namely––my mammary tissue!

For, though you may feel dubious,
each year, I grow more boobious!
I do not like them hanging there
where once they used to thrust the air.
Where once each strained against its cup,
It seems like now  they’ve given up.

Listless and flat, downward they droop.
Sad Sack replaces Betty Boop.
They have no personality.
They’ve lost elasticality!
The result is truly tragic,
so this is why I need some magic.

Please, gods of nature, give a cure.
There must be some way to inure
my breasts from force of gravity.
Now that I rule, hear my plea!
Tell gravity that it is best
to loose its hold upon each breast

so they are perky once again,
thrusting out below my chin
instead of hanging in two vees
somewhere down around my knees!
Restore my pride. Dispel my frown.
I want them hanging out, not down!

Go here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/12/11/flopped-selfie/ to read a poem that is an answer to the poem above–as well as the response below! (I promise, however, to end this subject here and now. No more!)

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/if-i-ruled-the-world/

21 thoughts on “Keeping Abreast”

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      1. Scott's avatarScott

        Outrageous! There was an old English Dinner Game the folks in the knight days used to play. You would have skunked them had you been invited to join in. 😀.

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          1. Scott's avatarScott

            It’s not quite rhyme as we know it. It’s very loose verse. It’s called Cap Rhyming. One person in the party quotes a verse familiar to many. Someone else must respond with another familiar quote that begins with the same letter as the first. My source suggests this began in 1588 and has continued in the British coffee houses during the subsequent centuries.

            How would you arm yourself for such a contest?

            I couldn’t find a Google reference I could point you to, but you might be more fortunate.

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            1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

              Cool. I’ve never heard of it and I took every course in Medieval and Old English that was offered at my University. Have you heard of Kennings? That’s the only old English poetic device I could think of. I think we should do a Capping chain on the blog. It would be even more fun if it had to begin with the same first word!!! See, I’m complicating matters again!

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            2. Scott's avatarScott

              Can you set up some rules? I’m interested in giving d like to give it a whirl in a couple of weeks. At this point my wife has been very ill and requires a lot of my undivided attention, but in a couple of weeks she should be out of the woods.

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            5. Scott's avatarScott

              I guess it was deleted rather than sent. I said for the next couple of weeks my full attention is on getting my wife healed. I hoping you might set up some ground rules and in a couple of weeks I’ll give it a whirl. It sounds like a lot of head-scratching fun. Count me in.

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