The Sibling Below Me...

[Swatopluk]

Check the Song of Wayland for details 

The sibling below me thought more about Titus Andronicus

[Griffin NoName]

Yes indeed; I thought Titus A. shows how inappropriate Shakespeare is for school kids being a piece of literature just about the most violent known to man/woman. Ban Shakespeare !

TsBM has gone blue all over.

[Swatopluk]

My transformation to smurf is almost complete.

The sibling below me was thinking more along the line of Celtic war paint

[Griffin NoName]

I see line after line painted in Celtic war paint and it makes me dizzy.

TsBM can't spell.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I  c a n ' t  f o r  n o  a p p a r e n t  r e a s o n.

TSBM prefers verse to prose.

[Opsa]

Which is worse?
Prose or verse?
Letter for letter,
which is better?
I'm most smitten
by thoughtfulness written.
It don't matter
how...

The Sibling Below Me had a more concise answer in mind.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

No!

TSBM can't stand monosyllables.

[Aggie]

Undoubtedly prefer polysyllabic verbage, myself.....
(however, "Monosyllabic Girl" constantly features within music playlists)


TSBM goes to the seaside where they like to spin and twirl.
('cause everyone knows they're in love with the monosyllabic girl!)

[Swatopluk]

An' I start insults to hurl
As the side effects unfurl

The sibling below me now will present us with a short poem in hexameters or elegiac disticha.

[Pachyderm]

μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος


TSBM knows what that means...

[Swatopluk]

Tell me oh goddess of the wrath of Peleus's son Achilles
(which did immeasureable harm to the Achaians
and sent the souls of so many maginificnet heros to Hades)

I did not even have to look that up.

The sibling below me will sing a little song for us to change our minds.

[Pachyderm]

Hypochondriacs
Spend the winter at the bottom of Florida and the summer on top of
the Adirondriacs.
You go to Paris and live on champagne wine and cognac
If you're dipsomognac.
If you're a manic-depressive
You don't go anywhere where you won't be cheered up, and people say
"There, there!" if your bills are excessive.
But you stick around and work day and night and night and day with
your nose to the sawmill.
If you're nawmill.

Many thanks, Ogden Nash.

Personally, I always imagined that being sung in a New York Jewish accent (think Allen Sherman), but TSBM may disagree

[Opsa]

Woody Allen would work, too.

The Sibling Below Me has a favorite Woody Allen film.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

So many... perhaps Mighty Aphrodite?

TSBM remembers Mazinger/Tranzor Z's Aphrodite.

[Opsa]

Ooh, if I could do what she did, I'd cause major damage! (But nowadays, my aim would be lower!)

The Sibling Below Me is now thinking of pie-throwing, for some strange reason.