687 : Doing the Rounds

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #150) presents a list of words

that we must incorporate in a writing piece.  

The words this week are:

cage, fuel, assault, six, where, type

trigger, double, mercy, guess, easy, list

-- THIS IS FICTIONAL --

Doing the Rounds

[A clatter of chains, door creaks open]

Medic: How are we today Mr Newbery?

An old poet who was kept in a cage

To write his views of the age

Where all the insanity 

Of herds of humanity

Only went to fuel his rage.

Medic: I see.  Dark side unchanged.  Any improvement on the lighter side of the list?

My limericks are the purest of tripe

And usually the naughtiest type.

Where I quietly ponder

The double entendre

Of peaches—firm, round and ripe.

Medic: I’ll take that as a no.  Any other examples?

A guy claimed that he was possessed

When he fondled a young lady’s breast.

But her boyfriend spied him,

Bound him and tied him,

And then gave him six of the best.

Medic: I think you are getting worse.  What do you feel is the trigger for all of this?

I see myself a release

In those moments of strife—

A light relief 

In those moments of grief,

A chocolate profiterole 

On the tea-trolley of life.

Medic: Right.  Nurse, he's taken a turn for the verse.  Tighten the straps and double the medication.  

Mercy!

Medic:  He must be French.  He thanked me.  Come nurse, next patient…

[sounds of door shutting and bolting…]

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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