09-09-2024, 07:45 AM
(09-08-2024, 02:22 PM)Tiger the Lion Wrote: My first run at this posted in fun because it's for a "fun" project. Would like some help with it though. Got as much down as I could before I lost the whole train of thought. Nursery rhymes are wonderfully compact.Beautiful
A Tale of Five Piggies
The first goes to market
dressed like a buyer
and is bid on,
bought
and butchered
before noon.
The second stays home
till we fatten her up.
The next is a porky,
parody of a pig
and has roast beef
with fatty drippings
over Yorkshires
and mash
in hopes of filling
his missing brother’s
part of the pen.
The fourth will have none of it;
fat bastard needs to be trim
before Sunday.
The last little piggy
though plump in her pics,
was nothing
a keen-eyed
butcher would buy.
She wee-wee’d her way
all the way home
to an empty pantry
and a table set
by hungry mouths.
I see in it references to particular socks and trolls that infest this forum, but the theme embraces the general topic of trollery in a connected world, thus making it catholic

