So ya wanna be a sylph?
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Well, Bou says Sissy’s assigning a word a week to use in blogs, kinda a bloggish Word Power thingy. This week’s is “sylph” and anyone who knows me knows it’s not a word I’d characteristically use, so here, with profound, but insincere, apologies to Joyce Kilmer for semi-stealing his beat (though not so much his rhyme scheme):
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The Anti-Sylph
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I think that I shall never be
The slender, sylphid nymph you see
Bending e’er so gracefully
‘Gainst the gentle breeze.
The slender, sylphid nymph you see
Bending e’er so gracefully
‘Gainst the gentle breeze.
For I am rough and hard, though fat,
An’ graceful just ain’t where I’m at,
Cos no durn wind’ll even blow my hat
With it’s pernicious wheeze.