Word Play: James Awakens in a Good Mood

James Awakens in a Good Mood

The callethump in James’ brain

rose and fell o’er his mental terrain.

Who was the bride?  Who was the groom?

Who was the clown with a red balloon?

Accustomed to eat his cereal

with thoughts sere and funereal,

why the epithalamium

in his venerable cranium?

Did he deserve unnerving joy?

Was he a lexographer’s toy

who could uncathect grumpiness

contemplating callethumpiness?

                                                            

Rat's Country: His sudden kindness...

His sudden kindness frightened me.  "Am I dying," I wondered.

Rat's Country: Bad voice day

Bad voice day:  "You should not be doing anything that I haven't given you the permission to do or that I'm not in charge of."

Rat's Country: I am beginning to pay more attention...

I am beginning to pay more attention to my abilities than to my yearnings.

Rat's Country: Don't leave unattended places in your house

Don’t leave unattended places in your house where messes can accumulate, fires start, mice nest, bugs congregate.

Dora Waage's Scottish toast:

"Here's to us
Who's like us?
Damn few
and they're all dead."

Rat's Country: Ground squirrels

Ground squirrels.  They never do more than perch on the edge of their holes, then go beneath the earth to breed bad ideas.