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Writer's pictureCharles Joseph Albert

To Be Read With a Whistling 'S'


Biographical note: my mother and maternal grandmother both had a tendency to slightly whistle their "s"es... so these are for anyone who likes to whistle while they read.


1) Since sassy “yesses” summon stares askance and sometimes ired

Perhaps you’re safer sticking to the sincere “si” desired.

Scurrilous sarcasm seldom strikes us as inspired.


2) Sidestroke swimming, once in style, is a passé exercise.

This illustrates supercilious sports’ status slip in size.


3) Seis Salsas is a Tex-Mex restaurant of sunny Austin’s:

Their service serious enough to sate most Anglo-Saxons.


4) Sargasso sausages and sassafras start to possess

A salience of seasonings, a substance of success;

Seabiscuits could assist aside with scarcely any stress.


5) A science schism exists

In the scoliosis sickness:

Salicylic acid versus

Slicing surgeons’ scissors. No consensus.


6) What sissy is susceptible to scant spenserian stanza?

No species can seduce with so much sing-song esperanza.

I’d sooner sixty saracens recite in sanskrit sequence,

Or sacerdotal seamstresses to simply stitch a silence.


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