Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)

[ChristopherSea]

mashed potatoes
fermented, add yeast, etc.
voila.......vodka

Shirley Temple
wouldn't stand for it-
it’s Spud Brutality!

[just mercedes]

Shirley Temple
wouldn't stand for it-
it’s Spud Brutality!

Shirley Murphy
on the other hand
mashes happily

[ChristopherSea]

Shirley Murphy
on the other hand
mashes happily

Shirley McLaine's
more spaced out
than Sputnik ever was

[RiverNotch]

Shirley McLaine's
more spaced out
than Sputnik ever was

Sputnik was launched
a few days before
a spaced out Iron Giant
exploded

[just mercedes]

Sputnik was launched
a few days before
a spaced out Iron Giant
exploded

Dag Hammarskjold
achieved orbit we're told
on his drop-in visit
to the Congo. Ongo bongo.

[rayheinrich]

Sputnik was launched
a few days before
a spaced out Iron Giant
exploded

Dag Hammarskjold
achieved orbit we're told
on his drop-in visit
to the Congo. Ongo bongo.

Maybe "bongo bongo"?
(And, on slightly related letter groupings, I simply love the band Oingo Boingo [Danny Elfman, et al.])

[just mercedes]

Me too - I wanted to use 'Oingo Boingo' as a slant rhyme. But there's no editing one of these - someone may have started composing a response ...

[ChristopherSea]

Dag Hammarskjold
achieved orbit we're told
on his drop-in visit
to the Congo. Ongo bongo.

Dag was never dubbed
a Mystic Knight of the Oingo Boingo-
dagnabit!

---

Dag Hammarskjold
achieved orbit we're told
on his drop-in visit
to the Congo. Ongo bongo.

Dag was never dubbed
a Mystic Knight of the Oingo Boingo-
dagnabit!

[bena]

you'd better vamoose
and don't chum up with any
long eared galoots

sharks nipping at your
bad ideas
long faces trailing behind.

[rayheinrich]

sharks nipping at your
bad ideas
long faces trailing behind.

doll's face forced in molded smile
her maker's toy
her fate foreseen

[Leah S.]

doll's face forced in molded smile
her maker's toy
her fate foreseen

He toys with me -
"Doll Face"
is not my name.

[just mercedes]

He toys with me -
"Doll Face"
is not my name.

We play together
at different paces -
I face the end of the game.

[RiverNotch]

little games
rice on the asphalt--
mountain in the distance

[Leah S.]

little games
rice on the asphalt--
mountain in the distance

I count words
not games
two grains of rice I thought.

[just mercedes]

I count words
not games
two grains of rice I thought.

Two grains of comfort I sought.
Even one would suffice
but who's counting?

[rayheinrich]

Two grains of comfort I sought.
Even one would suffice
but who's counting?

play love with dice?
rice will suffice

[just mercedes]

play love with dice?
rice will suffice

It's nice to gamble
on a sure thing -
the rice pot's always boiling

[bena]

It's nice to gamble
on a sure thing -
the rice pot's always boiling

sex heats up in the kitchen
pots bang around
rice falls in hair

[ChristopherSea]

sex heats up in the kitchen
pots bang around
rice falls in hair

cooking in the kitchen
with Melanie-
forking and spooning all night

[RiverNotch]

the trident-wielder weeps--
the silver soup server
loses its shine