The Puntiff
THE PUNTIFF
By Teak Kilmer
By Teak Kilmer
To my dear friend Roger Curtner *
and by this stroke is very
funny
Puntificates does he this lad
till no one round him could be sad
Lifts he one’s spirits, rustles one’s belly
turning all those about him to rosy jelly
till no one round him could be sad
Lifts he one’s spirits, rustles one’s belly
turning all those about him to rosy jelly
Unskilled in punting, he
became the class punner
which all do know is much more funner
He does this art sans ‘pun’ or ‘puncil’
just spews at will from oral ‘enuncil’
which all do know is much more funner
He does this art sans ‘pun’ or ‘puncil’
just spews at will from oral ‘enuncil’
His utterances disarm with
punch and beauty
as trippingly he does this humor duty
Our Roger Curtner, one man pundemic he
our doberman puncher, our punny tat gift of glee
as trippingly he does this humor duty
Our Roger Curtner, one man pundemic he
our doberman puncher, our punny tat gift of glee
Alas now off they swift him
to the punitentiary.
*Roger was born disabled; never learned to even ride a bike.
**[1] A petard is
X. "Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is literally to avoid being in
front of a cannon when it fires. Today, a petard, according to
Webster’s, is “a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or
breach a wall” or “a firework that explodes with a loud report.”
A wonderful ode to a man of many words.
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