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Ursula's Hungry Pear

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Let all the artists salute
Vernon's unique, dentate fruit.
You don't know 'dentate?'
Oh, good grief!
'Dentate' means 'equipped with teeth.'
Such a viand, might, with spite,
Match you, tasting, BITE FOR BITE!

Touch it not, bugs, with a feeler.
Housewife, spare the rusty peeler!
Shun it, spurn it, wisdom flees!
TEETH ARE NOW GROWING ON TREES!
Chew on this one, and get sore!
This pear's altered--to the core!
Pray the thing will get no bigger.
Ask instead for more of 'Digger.'

What's next? Apples bearing fangs?
So much for MY hunger pangs!
Get it drunk, if liquor's handy,
I've heard pears are good, with brandy.
What is this now that I see?
Did that orange SMILE at me?
Spare that coconut a whack!
It might, piqued, and armed, HIT BACK!

But it's useful, no mistake.
There are no lips, on a steak--
Smiling fruit, however sweet,
Give me reason to choose meat.
Baked potato, between bites,
Mouthing pleas for 'TOOTHED PEAR RIGHTS!'
So we must admire it, there.
Ursula HAS got 'quite a pear.'
Oh, why not?  Besides, I love a writing challenge, have met Ms. Vernon and greatly admire her work, and am only a little afraid of her... But this thing makes me happy by reminding me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallery.  It also creeps me out.

Apparently, one only gets the Badge for graphic art.  I worked in my most original, and most skilled medium...  Sigh.
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