Pickles by Brian Crane for December 01, 2022

Earl’s eyes open and no glasses! A first in my memory.

Why talk about poetry or poultry when one of two people is asleep?

Earl prefers prose chickens.

Same, Earl. I’m very intellectually pretentious, but most poetry leaves me cold. Years ago, though, I came across and English poet named Gerard Manley Hopkins and dove in pretty deep. Very moving.

I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a fricasse…

He said nothing, so she would know that how?

“If I really have the time, I’d like to read the words that rhyme”!

Unless the poetry is about poultry …

Earl might have been turned off by Percy Dovetonsils, the Ernie Kovacs character as “poet laureate.” [certainly offensive these days] Now, if it had been Kim Novak reading poetry …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUbDGrPg9U

How do you annoy a poet? Be another poet.

Who remembers Churchy LaFemme and his poems in the swamp?

She knows him so well.

I’m with you, Earl.

I was wondering why you wanted to go to a poultry reading.

I’m with Earl

So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chicken.

Here’s poetry with poultry———

so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rainwater

beside the whitechickens— William Carlos Williams

Earl and I think alike. Scary! Poultry yes , poetry nah!

Her top is RED, his top is BLUE……. If they were 20 years YOUNGER, they would probably just __________.

What a meeting of minds these two have! Where’s the mystery in marriage when this happens.

You haven’t read poetry until you’ve read James Whitcomb Riley’s “The Passing of the Outhouse”…

Never on the same page…☺️☺️☺️

Lol! It’s a comic strip!

Earl must have been having that dream that he was Colonel Sanders again.

Atta boy, Earl!

Good for you, Earl. How is the little Red Hen?

Farmer 1 said, “How’s ur poultry doing, Ed?” and Ed said, “Not to good….the chickens got into it.”

Wow. All this chicken poetry gives a guy an appetite.

I’ll take chicken over Dickinson every day.

My ex wife always wanted to start meaningful conversations as I was drifting off to sleep.