Pardon by Way of a Higher Power
There was a stay of execution, and the prisoner was relieved.
The executioner, in a turmoil, was sorely aggrieved.
If he couldn’t fire incessantly, it put him off his game.
And yet he couldn’t argue with the one who was to blame.
Sometimes it was the law that won, and sometimes the sinner.
He cut his prisoner free and then shuffled off to dinner.
“Does Jimmy want to stay to eat?” his mom was heard to say,
“I can call his mom to ask her, if he wants to stay.”
But the sheriff told his mom that since he wasn’t ichthyophagous,
a tuna sandwich wouldn’t make it past his friend’s esophagus!
Prompt words today are stay, incessant, ichthyophagous, turmoil and game. What travesties of plot these prompts sometimes force upon us!!!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
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Hahahaha. Good One!
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Simply wonderful. Thank you. All my best to you.
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Thanks. That ichthyophagous prompt nearly did me in!
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I’m impressed you could work ichthyophagous into a poem!
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Ha.. I considered skipping it, but then the challenge reared its ugly head.
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Ha! Great story.
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Clever! I hope they kept a bucket close by too. Cleaning up used tuna fish… well *ulp* suffices ..
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Love it, and the plaque too, except we actually used “rubber guns” which went obsolete with the invention of synthetic rubber. But we did sometime make the prisoner eat stuff not good for them.
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Wow! I loved how you rhymed that hard word. Just fantastic!
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Ha..I was going to just leave it out and then thought, why not? Just for fun.
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