Dear John, I have great respect for humorous verse and enjoy the way you've abused elements of poetry so as to add to the wry impact. Prune/swoon is a point indeed. I doubt in serious poetry "prune" would ever appear, certainly not in a rhyme. Here too, the word "prune" is used as its sound is crude and distasteful but its taste is actually pleasant, an element of irony. I believe writing good humorous verse is a task almost equal to serious good poetry. Cheers, jgd
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