What I Learned from Headlines that Rhyme with Cheese

Donald Wilson
Lit Up
Published in
1 min readSep 29, 2017

Bengalese Dungarees Freeze
Genoese Ease Vocalise
Hercules’ Herpes Flees
Cleese Keys Tease Bees
Knees Appease Japanese Sleaze

Reprise:
Sophocles Jeez-Squeeze
Socrates’ Bichon Frise–eh

Pea-Fleas Wheeze Disease
Sneeze, sneeze . . . tweeze

These:
Xerxes’ Atrocities
Ulysses’ Academies
Viennese Legalese
Vietnamese Antifreeze

Klappen Sie Puh-leeze!

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