The Case For Dear Abigail: She Had A Line And I Had A Hook...So I Sank Her...

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Open Poetry #50

The Case For Dear Abigail: She Had A Line And I Had A Hook...So I Sank Her...

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

0 posted 2017-11-19 12:52 PM

Dear Abigail, now a widow, with respects for her deceased,
said he was a frail, old man... as she begged for release

Though her uncles and cousins and twice removed parents,
knew all along that she’d been transparent

Straining for a kind of ‘split-pea’ reality,
explaining how her hubby was such a bad tease

She said, "I once cocked my ankle on the path through the garden,
imagine my sorrow, in shiny new shoes"

(How shallow of her to ask for sardines, I thought...)

“Then he stubbed his left toe right on my left ear-lobe,
so, still wearing my bathrobe, I buried him in snow!”

She sneezed so distastefully as I listened with interest,
when she screamed out in rich and moderate tones...

"I'm a fish!"

...and I was forevermore hooked with her ‘up-scale’ demeanor,
though “Dear Abby” never saw fit to write me again

An investment in swim fins was a small enough loss,
for the hope dear Abigail would give me a toss...

The End

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2017-11-19 01:16 AM

I want some of what you were having when you wrote this. Don't know why, but it tasted a bit like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe it's more about what I'm having and how late it is. Anyhow,it was a fun read and I enjoyed it.
I think I'll call it my bedtime story. ~L

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

2 posted 2017-11-19 12:30 PM

quote:
"I want some of what you were having when you wrote this. Don't know why, but it tasted a bit like Alice in Wonderland..."

...Hmm. Really, Lori Rhoden? Tasted more like baked Salmon with a California Chardonnay to me.

Abigail was no ordinary fish, Miss Lori The old man? I don't think he'll be found until after Spring thaw.

Thanks for reading...

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2017-11-19 03:16 PM

That sounds a little fishy to me Bluesy...
I plead the 5th on whatever I said, I was talking in my sleep.

Bluesy Socrateaser
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since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

4 posted 2017-11-19 05:13 PM

quote:
"That sounds a little fishy to me Bluesy"

On a 'scale' of 1-10?

...just bein' Bluesy

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