Saturday, 22 April 2023

PROFESSIONALS HAVE AN END OF LIFE # 2

 

Professionals have an end of life

Inescapable, though they may try

Old stuntmen for example just

Get discouraged they never die

PURPLE FINCH

 

Have you ever seen a Purple Finch?

Apparently, I did indeed once see one

I didn’t know it at the time of course

Because they are actually Crimson

PROFESSIONALS HAVE AN END OF LIFE # 3

 

Professionals have an end of life

Inescapable, though they may try

Old accountants for example just

Lose their balance, they never die

A DIPLOMAT IS A MAN WHO ALWAYS

 

A diplomat is a man who always,

Robert Frost stated quite sage,

Who remembers a woman’s birthday

But never remembers her age

LILY TOMLIN

 

Lily Tomlin always

Wanted to be somebody

She could have been

More specific probably

A paraphrasing of one of the great Lily Tomlin’s gags

WHEN I WAS JUST A YOUNG CHILD

 

When I was just a young child

I was subject to multiple attacks

My father assailed me with cameras

And I still suffer from flashbacks

VOCAB

 

It’s important to have a good and robust

Vocabulary, varied and diverse

And I have learned to my cost

Had I known the difference between

The words antidote and anecdote,

Several lives wouldn’t have been lost