Barely Breathless

THE CAT RETURNED THE KISS

BY ANY OTHER NAME

What’s so funny about this? We haven’t had a limerick in quite a while and this one’s a doozy. It follows the rules of limerick construction as far as meter, rhyme and length of line, but it’s unique in that to a listener it could sound as if the same word were being used to rhyme all five lines. In fact that word it does have the same phonemes however it’s actually five different words, three of which are spelled the same and two of which are also spelled the same. There are two groups of homonyms here, one group with three words and the other group with two, and ALL five words are homophones, making it pretty special. You could almost call it a bouquet of roses. The first homonym is “Rose”, spelled r-o-s-e. “Rose” is the name of a girl. Notice that for the sake of meter or timing of the first line, the word “by” is omitted. The second “rose” is the past tense of “rise.” The last “rose” is the red flower. The other homonym is “rows” spelled r-o-w-s. As a noun, a row can mean an aisle, a space where things are in line. It can also be a horizontal line of some things. The second “rows” is a third person singular verb, meaning to power a small rowboat by means of oars. So we have a young lady, Rose, who rises without looking down. We learn that she rising from a rowboat that is powered by her rowing. The narrator is obviously smitten with this young lady and has given her a rose flower. And THAT’s what’s so funny and sweet.

THIS WAS A CHILDRENS MOVIE

so if you ever see “washing feet” in the bible, it, uh. yeah.

I MEAN CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG BUT I SWEAR TO GOD I REMEMBER READING A STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE JESUS CLEANED THE ‘FEET’ OF A LADY PROSTITUTE INFRONT OF HIS TWELVE DISCIPLES WHO GOT SERIOUSLY GROSSED OUT. THEM GETTING REALLY SUPER GROSSED OUT BY THAT NEVER MADE SENSE TO ME UNTIL NOW.

JESUS CHRIST JESUS.