Michael called for d-d's with "gravy," "flout," and "tepid"? Okay. Keeping with my Mother Goose theme, how about:
Jack Sprat could eat no fat . . .
Food for the ill-suited
Mr. and Mrs. Sprat
(Jack and Amanda) was
always a strain,
even before a marked
insensitivity--
tepid, then virulent--
turned it to pain.
First it was minor things:
ice cream or sherbet, or
whether the tea should be
honeyed or not.
Jack had a palate for
oleomargarine;
Mandy insisted on
butter, bei Gott!
Things became ugly when
Jack rather nastily
sugared the gravyboat,
merely to flout
Mandy (who suffered from
hyperglycemia);
she creamed his veggies to
trigger his gout.
Curious spectacle,
watching such enmity
eat at these creatures at
every repast;
hardly a shock when the
gastrointestinal
warfare dissevered the
twosome at last.
Jan
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