In its April 12, 2024 issue, Orangevale View published my poem More Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person; it’s on page 5.
The link to the issue: https://ovview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Issue-7-Vol-17-4.13-final.pdf .
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For anyone who’d like to read More Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person now, here it is:
That person is so silly that they identify their own solid shape as a sillyuette.
That person is so silly that they describe their own ability to recover as resillyence.
That person is so silly that they describe moving faster as acsillyrating.
That person is so silly that they refer to the process of reconciling as reconsillyation.
That person is so silly that they refer to parts of their shirt as sillyves.
That person is so silly that if they had a pet dragon, they’d name it Basillysk.
That person is so silly that a type of triangle that they love to hear about is isosceles.
That person is so silly that they thought they heard so silly when they first heard of the island Sicily.
That person is so silly that instead of saying actually, they’d rather say honesilly…
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And if you’d like more, the previous nine sentences are a continuation of another one of my poems that I’m posting here:
Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person
April (which is National Humor Month)
feels like the best time to think of puns
and to play with words and language.
Here’s a list to encourage getting creative:
That person is so silly, they call themself a sillyonaire.
That person is so silly that when they’re taking a nap, they’re sillyping.
That person is so silly that if or when they take mushrooms, those shrooms are sillycybin mushrooms.
That person is so silly that if or when they’re teaching, the outline they give to students is a sillybus.
That person is so silly that their favorite herbs or flavoring on food is sillyantro.
That person is so silly that when they’re making a situation easier, they’re a fasillytator.
That person is so silly that their favorite shape is the sillynder.
That person is so silly that their favorite part of a room is its sillyng.
That person is so silly that they identify a unit of a word as a sillyble.
That person is so silly that they say that purity is sillybacy.
That person is so silly that if they become famous, they’re a sillybrity.
That person is so silly that they’d like their funeral to be a sillybration of life…
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When Deadlines Become Zombies 