gandygoin’ 

                 had a good guess

kirkyard

            could deduce “At their mother’s funeral . . . brothers . . . had been so drunk on their way to the kirkyard that they left the body behind.”   churchyard   cemetery

cherry-checkit apples

                              cherry-cheeked was written midEighteenth century  Scotland

Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphry Clinker  nurro geak

                                                                                     optimised nary a geek

banjaxed had to look it up   ruined 

                                         Irish

he was bettering his vocabulary

                                            better than battered buttered befouled besmirched buh buh buh

“Learning”

             said theoretical physicist Carlos Rovelli “is about unlearning things we think we know.”   

while not entirely applicable to words the thought astonished him

                                                                       his fervent humanist wish was more people would get onboard read write  put their smartphones aside away or at least minimise their use dust social medias quit apps   Microsoft relentlessly badgers him when he turns off his computer  Recommended Install WhatsApp 

loved his fixed PC had Airplane Mode

     programmed couldnt find its ass if it had hands

                                                            Send in the Drones

he hadnt contended with such malfeasance since catechism

nuns had hands

nuns had no sense of humour

when he laughed at hilarious Biblical stories he was marched into the hallway opposite the open classroom door which revealed her seated at her desk standing at the chalkboard behind it

they had him kneel on a broomstick 

fortunately he was but spit of a boy

he made his First Holy Communion

his parents were thrilled  proud

                                    they encouraged him to pursue Confirmation

with a wry smile

                   Mom  Dad  Thall be a cold day in Hell

their vernacular

he said An idiom

that he knew disturbed them

    they didnt push it

 

WORDS   

1237,  Sunday,  29  6. 25

1417,  Wednesday,  2  7. 25

Judy Collins  Send in the Clowns  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6KGuTr9TI