Topsy Turvey

Topsy Turvey

March 19, 2009 … (25 minutes to write)

By Teak Kilmer, SEE

 

 A Prompt for Cursive Writer’s Group: Think of Phrases Common, Make Observations Uncommon

 

Waste not; want not … want is waste

late night eating feeds my hazardous waist

 

If you can’t say anything good, say nothing at all … but

you can always say something good

 

When you are drawing a blank, what colors do you use?

 

Picture this: a person head over heels…do you have it yet?

“Heels over head” would be posture akimbo!

 

A prisoner is one or thing that im-prisons

A prisonee is one incarcerated!

Hence describe: “escapee” and “escaper”.

 

Finish the sequence: tenth, ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fiveth, fourth … threeth, twoth, oneth. 

Note – we mispronounce “two” (it should be obvious that two does not rhyme with too and neither does to) and “one”, should rhyme with; bone, cone, phone, and stone

 

War is Hell so why are we so in love with it?

War is proof of failure

 

The penis mightier than the sword

Sex isn’t dirty

it is normal, beautiful, creative, spiritual

war is dirty, ugly, destructive, graven

 

Which sequence is correct? Each is consistent

Only one (pronunciation please, as in only) is correct

Myself                    Meself

Itsself                      Itself

Herself                    Herself (why are the objective and the possessive cases the same!?)

Hisself                    Himself

Theirselves             Themselves

What is common to each column?

column one is possessive of the selves

column two is objective of : – all nonsense.

What in the name of English are we doing to English?!

 

Sticks and stones will break my bones,

but names will ever hurt me, but then again

it is as much of a sin to take offense as it is to give offense

and we must first learn not to take offense

and since it is the shallow brook that babbles, I must be moving on

 

 


Comments

  1. Julie JeatranNovember 5, 2022 at 8:51 PM

    My head is spinning! I would have loved to have you as my English teacher!

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