Sissy caption video5/1/2023 ![]() Picture me on your TV, my voice all sweet and slow. I’d become just like Cupid, which would be kind of stupid, if I only had a heart. I must cater to the donors, the billionaires and owners, like anyone who’s smart. I might start actin’ human, though my downfall would be loomin’, if I only had a heart. When a man’s an empty vessel, he never needs to wrestle with conscience for his part. I could lose their affection, and might not win election, if I only had a brain. Joe Biden won the vote.īut my voters love the crazy, so why not just be lazy, not cause my head a strain I would get to know some new folk, not just a lot of Q folk - I’d know they were insane Īnd I wouldn’t get crazier with a Jewish space. I could while away the hours on legislative powers, or helping folks in pain,Īnd I might not be rootin’ for the folks who are shootin’, if I only had a brain. If I Only Had a Brain - A Heart – The Nerve: Musing With the GOP Three First: Marjorie Taylor Greene: Deadline is Tuesday, July 5 (we’ll give you July 4 off) results appear July 24 in print, July 21 online. ![]() Submit up to 25 entries at wapo.st/enter-invite-1494 (no capitals in the web address). (Warning: The correct spelling is the first one on each line the second is the spelling that the kid said, which was sometimes wrong.) If you don’t want to look up those words and then their meanings and pronunciations, check out my list of 20 of the words at the bottom of this column. To see the words: Go to /round-results, then click on any of the rounds from 4 through the final spell-off. You may add a title, and you may even use the word in the title and not the poem itself. You may use a slightly different form of the word, such as a plural, adding “-ing,” etc. At least for the poems, you must use the word with its real meaning and pronunciation you can’t pretend it’s something else (stay tuned for a future contest like this). OR: Write a joke in Q&A form that uses at least one of the words. Did you see this year’s finals of the National Spelling Bee, with the new lightning-round tiebreaker? You rock, 14-year-old Harini Logan, who fired off 22 ridiculously obscure words correctly (plus a few incorrectly) in the space of 90 seconds! You’ll be happy to know, though, that YOU, dear Loser, have not 90 seconds but 12 days for this annual contest: Write a humorous poem of eight lines or fewer that includes at least one of the words used in Round 4 or later of this year’s bee, as in the example above from Round 13.
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