TEACHER OF CREATURES

Creature Teacher

A Silly Sonnet
By Izzy Sommers

A teacher taught a creature in Marseilles
To work away and party Saturday.
A lawyer out of Sawyer saved the day
By staving off defendants’ pink toupees.
A pudgy judge, who favoured chocolate fudge,
Got both to trudge, when given half a nudge.
A tall Emir from old Kashmir has fear
He sears his beard when he appears near here.
Reluctantly soliloquies from old
Paris are cancelled out and tend to fold.
It isn’t every day, that Mandalay
Conveys it’s say on what to pay for hay.
O Canada with rhyming couplets can
Pan candelabras made in Pakistan.

THE END

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Nota Bene:

The following 2 lines were not accepted by www.poetry.com because of “unacceptable” word, or words, which I could not fathom, unless it’s scam or stiff or sniff:

A plaintiff out of Cardiff sniffed a scam
When he was stiffed at pubs in Birmingham.

As you can see, I substituted the title and the first couplet in the original sonnet and it became “acceptable.” I will try and do this another time to find out to what word or words poetry.com objected. As the poem was repeatedly rejected, I thought it was fudge, then Emir, then Kashmir and then Pakistan, but they were acceptable. I am pretty sure they won’t accept fuck or cunt, neither word acceptable by the raunchiest of limerick publishers. I haven’t tried shit or piss, fellatio or cunnilingus. I know I’ve gotten damn, nuts, balls, orgies and hell through, but never tried dam, ass, schmuck, putz, or screw. I wonder what they’d do with words like erection, teats, tits, pussy, cum, denigrate, nigger, kike, tumescence and ejaculation About a month ago, the word “coot” was not accepted and I substituted “fruit” which was. Perhaps “coot” has a pejorative connotation that is obscene or is politically incorrect because it derogates senior citizens. I know “coon” is prejudicial to Afro-Americans.