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The Style Invitational's challenge due Monday: "Offer a new angle on a folk tale, nursery rhyme, children’s song, etc., with a short poem, mini-story (under 100 words) or song parody."

I considered several rhymes and songs that seemed awry when I thought about them. The hard parts are (1) being halfway original and (2) being funny. I ruled out a self-defense plea for "Who Killed Cock Robin?" because that's a sensitive subject these days.

Ultimately, I submitted these two:

Three Very Confused Mice
Why in the world would three blind mice
Pursue a human adult?
Their senses of hearing and smell should’ve told them
They’d get no good result—
Unless there was something amiss about her.
Perhaps her voice was a squeak
And her pheromones smelled like a lovely mouse.
That would give them cause to seek.

Shoe Them Away
The woman who lived in a shoe was a senior.
Her youngest was probably forty.
No wonder she treated her children so badly:
They hadn’t moved out yet; oh, Lordy!