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Poop-deck Pappy swayed back & forth in concert

  • Poop-deck Pappy swayed back & forth in concert with the rising waves. It was right before the storm. These were the moments he cherished...and feared. The story began then...
  • to approach the stern of the ship. The prologue climbed over the taffrail onto the poop, followed by chapter 1. Chapter 2 grasped the rudder. Thunder drowned out Pappy's screams as
  • the ship plummeted into a gaping plot hole, but it rebounded as the story crested. Captain Wrightblock tied Poop-deck Pappy to the rudder & abandoned story with a sideplot rowboat
  • down a very slippery slope. Unfortunately for Captain Wrightblock and Poop-deck Pappy, the sideplot rowboat was dashed against the rocks of reality when a Brevity Editor got hold
  • of some combustible shorthand and failed to use it responsibly. With that, Captain Wrightblock and crew were washed ashore to Allegory Island, which was home to the most venomous
  • Satirists, one of which was Jonathan Swift. Rabelais lived there too. They shared a two flat and lived on different floors. Who else lived there, I wondered.
  • Mark Twain rented the basement & Miguel de Cervantes slept on the lawn, & were forever engaging in verbal pugilistics as Cervantes was so magniloqently verbose & Twain so blunt.
  • 'Goddamnit man," Twain sneered angrily, "can't you just agree to disagree?!" Cervantes chucked a rock at Twain's basement level window from the lawn and yelled "NEVER!"
  • Tolstoi heard that "NEVER" from over a hedge as he was passing in his troika. He pulled back on the reins a bit too vigorously and the troika skittered into Twain as he exited from
  • the Volga Queen. Mark Twain did a loop-de-loop as he counted his winnings. Luckily he landed in a nest of gentlefolk atop a cherry tree. Dr. Chekhov checked his nose, just in case.

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