Prompt Responses

   
     The Three Word Wednesday prompt this week is to use the words ragged, threatening and unsightly in a piece of writing.

     With a steady hand on the wheelchair's joy stick, I maneuvered through the dining room of the old folks' home where I live. The management takes offense to the term "old folks home." Their euphemism of choice is "senior retirement community." This place isn't like the old folks homes in the TV commercials of the fifties, where the residents spent countless hours on the veranda discussing their bowels and laxatives. Here, we old folks have those conversations inside in air-conditioned comfort.
     Enough of that. If the management finds out I'm saying such things, I'll get a threatening letter and my rent will be doubled.
    Back to the dining room. Jane waved and said hello, as I approached the table where she was sitting. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to my shirt, I thought. It was a T-shirt with "Beacon's Best 2006" writ large on the front. I started to tell her, the Beacon was the paper for which I once toiled as a sportswriter. The Beacon's Best is an annual softball tournament the paper sponsors. Perhaps she thought the nine-year-old shirt was more than a bit ragged.
     No. Jane reached out, touched my stomach, and said, "I was wondering if it's a boy or girl." Alas, the tummy has become an unsightly expanse.

This week, MadKane's Limerick-Off is asking for limericks using stride as the rhyme word in Line 1, 2, or 5.

Priscilla took it all in stride

When she became young Percy’s bride.

She loved only him,

Until, on a whim,

She took a lover on the side.

His love organ, withered and dried,

Robert could no longer keep stride

With folks young and horny.

Though with Sigourney,

The sly geezer certainly tried.

My Busy Work

To get my lazy butt moving, I have been starting each day with the MadKane limerick contest and Three Word Wednesday. MadKane’s rhyme word for line 1,2, or 5 this week is “trust.” 3WW’s words for last week were “blemish” “erect” and “lopsided.” The words for this week are “dead” “hungry” and “threaten.”

Me Sin?

The fiery preacher’s past had a blemish

That became known. And so to replenish

His stock among gullible followers,

Who were such eager, willing swallowers

Of his balderdash, he stood proudly erect,

Quite confident they would never detect

The truth. He claimed the coverage was lopsided;

The press was unfair and should be chided.

His congregation said, “Yes, you are right.”

And he happily bedded some slut that night.

Two American Sentences

Blemish on my nose. I’m lopsided, can’t stand erect. 

It’s a bad day.

My computer is dead. I’m hungry.

I should threaten someone. But who?

Trust You?

Appalled when his wife fumed and fussed,

Shocked Arthur asked why she had cussed.

“You are seeing a tart.

Don’t deny it, dear Art.”

“OK, but don't I deserve your trust?”

Bought and Paid For

The would-be prez will ask your trust,

But his word is mere worthless dust.

That charming young bloke

Has been purchased by Koch,

And will do what he’s told he must.

Fessing Up

You know, so many times I just

Can’t seem to do the things I must.

Sad but true, I ignore

All my chores more and more.

I am no longer one you’d trust.