a life sentence of paronomasia
Posted: April 12th, 2016, 9:26 am
I look at my hand
the expanding wrinkles
like unmarked country roads,
the old veins like baby snakes
of mountain blue sunning themselves
on granite rock skin, spotted
discolored and chapped, this hand
is so familiar to me, there is no
other like it, and no doubt
that it belongs to me, I know this hand
like the back of my hand
now I've done it....taken a perfectly
good poem and killed it with a faux pun
some puns are clever, others make you groan
I must confess here and now before my peers
I am a punaholic on a six decade binge
a pun-user with a daily habit, some call me
Punster Non Gratis, and some call me
Punelope Cruz, and if I'm not repuntant
in the end I could be pun-ished for this,
or even worse ....sent to the punitentiary
the expanding wrinkles
like unmarked country roads,
the old veins like baby snakes
of mountain blue sunning themselves
on granite rock skin, spotted
discolored and chapped, this hand
is so familiar to me, there is no
other like it, and no doubt
that it belongs to me, I know this hand
like the back of my hand
now I've done it....taken a perfectly
good poem and killed it with a faux pun
some puns are clever, others make you groan
I must confess here and now before my peers
I am a punaholic on a six decade binge
a pun-user with a daily habit, some call me
Punster Non Gratis, and some call me
Punelope Cruz, and if I'm not repuntant
in the end I could be pun-ished for this,
or even worse ....sent to the punitentiary