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baker’s delight

baby, Catastrophe, face, Fun, It's a joke!, laughter, Napowrimo, parody, Poetry, Relationships

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a domestic disaster in the making…

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says Jack to Jill

let’s stop the pill

and we’ll conceive a daughter;

days counted down to the ultrasound

and to the doctor’s laughter…

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‘s a daughter not

tis a son you’ve got

and soon she’ll be in labour

says Jack, ‘s too quick! ya clever dick!

and then, his face grew graver

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the babe within, conceived in sin?

with his brother, John the baker ?

Jack was vex’d, he read her texts

honey buns’was his son’s father.

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btw april 14 2023

not a haiku

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the original, well-known poem

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Jack and Jill went up the hill 
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown       
And Jill came tumbling after.

Up Jack got and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper;
Went to bed to mend his head
With vinegar and brown paper.

Jill came in and she did grin
To see his paper plaster;
Mother, vex’d, did whip her next
For causing Jack’s disaster.[4]

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. NaPoWriMo day 14 prompt

write a parody or satire based on a famous poem. It can be long or short, rhymed or not. But take a favorite (or unfavorite) poem of the past, and see if you can’t re-write it on humorous, mocking, or sharp-witted lines. You can use your poem to make fun of the original (in the vein of a parody), or turn the form and manner of the original into a vehicle for making points about something else (more of a satire – though the dividing lines get rather confused and thin at times).