zbaby, the question remains
for us who think less with our brains
than with our more questionable parts
just what that "z," baby, imparts.
A sleepy sweet infant that snores,
Or her, more grown up, one ignores?
Some Frenchified article
right at the starticle?
The name of a maker of tissue
for what from ze baby must issue?
(You thus a poster child
for what is soft and mild?)
But more than the just scatological,
you've raised up some ghosts genealogical--
(not to mention etymological
if not entirely logical)
for "minx" which comes from "mynx"
which comes from "minnekijn," methinks,
refers to what ladies in Dutch
call all canine lap beasts, dog or bitch,
meaning "my little loved one" or "darling"
with irony we know to mean "snarling."
And that's just nine tenths of your due,
but something's supernatural too--
at least ten percent, as you say,
lets you tell us who dies today.
When I put together all this,
to object to you would be a "Miss."
No matter how fierce you might seem,
It can't be as bad as your scream.
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