A Flash Poem for Saturday FLASH

 Reginald Southey
Lewis Carroll (1857)
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  Like a flashbulb, hair triggered

 

Like a flashbulb ready to go off

Spoil sport, we want just to have some fun

Hair triggered, lit fuse, ill-humored  

 

Day of stiffs, skeletons, and scarecrows

'Hang up in jest but don't do it here'

That's the message being sent to us   

 

You see, they scare the bijiggers i.-

e. BeJeezus* right outa my dog 

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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved (my photo above is a 'PrintScreen' of Kerry's contribution at the link below.  The little buy below is an artist rendition, "the only one" (??) from Wackipedia.wiki.com, see link at the bottom here*) 

 - I'm linked with Kerry O'Connor , at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Camera FLASH,  http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/12/camera-flash.html (my Flash poem has 61 words)

 

*Note: "BeJeezus was not a King (as far as we know - he was way too common). His name was Basil De Jesus and he was a joker in a royal court, not sure which one? he loved to play jokes, and had a bad habit of sneeking up on people when they least expected it, yelling out DeJesus has got you. One day he scared the King - (this is to our knowledge the correct version) thus he was beheaded - you just cant go around scaring mighty rulers. He is still fondly remembered - his name lingers on and everyone today who scares the crap out of anyone else get remember by the name BeJezzus." "in  'The Origin of: "You scared the bejesus outta me!'" ( http://wackypedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Origin_of:_%22You_scared_the_bejesus_outta_me!%22 )