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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

LITTLE TOMMY TUBERVILLE

by Ralph LaRosa




Was Tommy Tuberville
from Nowherville
deprived of lovely rhymes
in childhood times?
 
He thinks that hearing verse
makes sailors worse!
Is his little cry, 
meant to imply:
 
Soft sailors in collusions
of “woke” confusions
are fighters made Lambs
by rhymes and Iambs?