In the spirit of the season….A Pome (“poem”) as my ninth grade english teacher would have said).
By the way except for some bits of Shakespeare (Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, R&J) I can never memorize anything but for some reason this little thing that I learned when I was about eight, just stuck. I’m writing it down with the spelling that encourages the right pronunciation.
SPRING HAS SPRUNG
DA GRASS HAS RIZ
I WONDER WHERE DA BOIDIES IS?
DA BOID IS ON THE WING
BUT DAT’S ABSOID!
I ALWAYS THOUGHT DA WING WAS ON DA BOID.