On the Unimportance of Most Biting Attacks by Miniature Poodle Dogs on Giant Sumo Wrestlers in Japan

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On the Unimportance of Most Biting Attacks by Miniature Poodle Dogs on Giant Sumo Wrestlers in Japan There are consequences in this game of writing for which the writer must be prepared. Sometimes a writer writes too much. Sometimes a writer writes too little. If the gods are smiling upon the writer, sometimes the writer writes just right. (Kinda like in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears...) It can be that the real prizes will go to the writer who is into writing funny stuff while using the fewest words possible and is still able to get the point across - the part of the writing that can make a person smile and carry on after having his or her wits tickled a wee bit. Top that off by leading in with a humongously long title to the piece. What do you have when that combination is put forth? You have a potential winner. For example, the famous poet, Ogden Nash, was perhaps the first poet to earn his living writing humorous poems. He sold his output here, there, and everywhere (other than to MyLot). One of his best-paying customers was a very popular magazine, "The Saturday Evening Post." Another was the magazine, "The New Yorker." There were others, plus his short and funny poetry resulted in a number of books - first editions and many reprints, too. Not only was he parsimonious in his use of text, he often resorted to making up words and "almost words" all by himself. Here I was on this burdensomely hot day in the month of August, all done with breakfast and into my third cup of wonderful coffee. Suddenly, I had the notion that Ogden Nash, a poet whom I greatly admired, was "onto" something when it came to being funny with fewer than the usually witnessed number of words in a poem. So I did as he enjoyed doing. I wrote a funny poem using only two words, both meaningful and all of that, but made funny by their sharing poem space with an outrageously long and funny poem title. I posted that poem nakedly; that is, without all of this explanation and fal-de-ral, knowing full well that the MyLot members would enjoy the humor of the thing and would not have to have it all spelled out for them, as the saying goes - "chapter and verse." It was rapidly deleted without explanation. So here it is again, all weighted down by this burdensome treatise. So, please do enjoy the poem. I wrote it for you because I know that you like to laugh. * * * * * * * * * * On the Unimportance of Most Biting Attacks by Miniature Poodle Dogs on Giant Sumo Wrestlers in Japan Bite. Slight. * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Pixabay dot com