Sunday, September 18, 2022

Thingamajig, If You Please

Oh, dear 
Whatever 
 
Just has to be 
The perfect mot 
 
Valise one needs 
To get a grip on life 
 
These days, so long 
As you keep it 
 
Close at hand to throw 
Out whenever 
 
You think you know exactly 
What the long haul requires, 
 
Duckies. 
 
 

 

7 comments:

  1. Quack quack! I love your variation on "le mot juste" and I think Flaubert would be delighted.

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  2. Pleasantly surprised, the next morning after reading this poem, that it gently, pleasingly, returns to me while I am thinking about something else. First the poem's final word, Duckies, so perfect there (the last word), and then the fun of the poem, lightness, and of course "mot valise," which now I find (by Googling) apparently means "coat rack" or "coat hanger" in French (which seems irrelevant with regard to the poem, but is anything really irrelevant to the poem?).

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    1. As Lawrence Welk was wont to say,"Just keep them cards and letters coming, folks!" Thank you for both comments and btw, in your perusing of Google, did you by any chance come across the link and the end of this comment? (It has some cool words derived from--what else?--Greek!) ps. You might find it of interest that the last word of the poem was "dearies" at one time. Thank goodness for honest-to-goodness poetic quacks who never finish revising their work!
      https://novelacious.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/le-mot-juste-gustave-flaubert/

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  4. Yes, "dearies" would not have ended the poem with anything close to what "Duckies" delivers! And thanks for directing me to that link, which I hadn't found previously and which is fun.

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  5. In case anyone is wondering why I deleted a comment, it is because I thought it had been erased and therefore entered it again. And then discovered the earlier comment had not been deleted. Therefore, since the comments were almost identical, I deleted one of them. And I apologize for this boring explanation.

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  6. No apologies are necessary but I'll accept them anyway, just to hear the explanation, which wasn't really that boring.

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