Word Beads for Week of Jul 23, 2006

Word Beads is a weekly blog assignment where five words are randomly picked. The players’ task is to turn these into a useful text, like a story or a poem. This week the following words were required:

• retrievable
• cymbal
• unconnected
• kilovolt
• die

 The absentminded professor,
 Is not much of a dresser.
 Today he wears a tinkling cymbal,
 Which he claims is merely a symbol
 Of his great endeavor to be heard
 By the sizable undergraduate herd.
 But their interest is not retrievable,
 Until he finds a solution; unbeatable:
 Let’s electrocute the bunch!
 A few kilovolt on a hunch!
 But the professor’s mind is in another place,
 With the unconnected electrical plug he errs,
 And though no student did die and go up in flares,
 They now listen to every word their master airs.