no rhyme for "castle"

[Mark Mandel]

Orange you all glad we're done with this one?

Mark Mandel

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:27 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> <
JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:53:35 Zone minus 0400 Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> >If you say the "T" in "castle,"
> >It still won't rhyme with "pastel."
> >You may have a go at "bastle,"
> >But that won't rhyme with "orange"
> >Or "silver." What a hastle!
>
>
>      Aftermath of a Winter Battle
>
> The sky was clouded and gray
> The sun shone a pale silver
> The wind was cold that day
> I felt a bitter chill.  B-r-r-r
>
> The life-giving blood that had bled
> From the bodies of the poor Inj-
> uns stained the snow a bright red
> But on their skin was a pale orange
>
> On their clothes it showed a dark brown
> It was maroon on their dirty bandages
> And a dull pink where it fell on bare ground
> Under those stark corpse-blood-and-snow sandwiches
>
> Here a dead mother holding a dead babe
> I could imagine watching her pull
> Her small child away from the yawning grave
> Before the cold wind turned him purple
>
> I thought the horror would stop the sun on its dail-
> y path through the sky, but, no, Mr. sun
> Thick with thorrow lithped hith trail
> Through the sky as he did every day of the month
>
>     - James A. Landau
>
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