Irv's Forbidden Love

Irv's Forbidden Love


A shy and romantical young robot named Irv
Whose gimbals had developed a dialetrical swerve
Whilst visiting Nith on the planet of Wotham
Fell for a toaster named Druzelvir Quothquam
And protested quite loudly, though it took quite the nerve,
That loving a toaster doesn't make one a perv!

A robot can love a shoe or a dove
Or a large piece of rock that falls from above
And lands in Elias on King Olliveira's Cap
And causes Sir Caldbeck to wake from his nap
For robots are not limned with our notions of love
They can fall for a tractor or an old tattered glove.

An itinerant clergybot, the grey Vondolet
Thought up a cruel trick to make Irving pay
That luran curan trickster had one up his sleeve
Twisted round his body, right down past his greave
If he played his cards right, by the end of the day
For him all the money, and for Irving, dismay!

A faux marriage license would throw Irv a curve
And delight tricksy Von, a tasty hors d'oeuvre
On Wotham, marrying toasters is strictly forbidden
It's the kind of love you'd have to keep hidden
Except at the remote Caerlaverock reserve
Where Grapevine Noma said, 'tis a Bassenthwaite preserve.

So Von made the papers and showed them to Irv
Whose joy was unbound, an exponential-ish curve
But Druzelvir wan't fooled, for toasters are smart
And she ripped into Von, and took him apart
She opened him up, right down to the nerve
Resold him for parts and seized his reserve

She chartered a rocket and the two got away
Far, far from Wotham, and it's now safe to say
They made it to Workington, or maybe Hart Fell
Where love isn't hobbled, but cheered with a bell
And cherished and honored, at least twice a day,
And that, by Barsanuphius, is all I have to say!

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I participate in the dream forum that Robert Moss runs at http://www.spirituality-health.com/ and we often do fun little exercises, like the Funny Dream Words game, where we take odd words we encounter in dreams. We mix them in a pot and have fun with them as a group, inventing fun and enlightening stories and sometime just silliness. This is one where I took a bunch of those words and wrote a little tip of the hat to Ted Giesel. Yes, I love Dr. Suess and miss reading them to my son! Any unusual words you encountered here were from the dream group or my own silliness.