words from wordle 1,967
PRATE pushed this group toward empty talk, chatter, complaint, and verbal excess, which made it especially fertile for satire and zappai. Mark turns it into the endpoint of escalating blame, Lari gives it a comic character voice, and auntie jj makes it part of an absurdly bureaucratic prison code.
Debbie’s poem is a particularly good example of how Worku can make nonsense cohere. The constraint words look almost impossible together, yet the poem builds a comic internal logic from food, objects, trade, irritation, and finally cheese. PRATE isn’t present there, but the same spirit of linguistic improvisation runs through the whole group: when the words are strange enough, making them live together becomes the craft.
Jonesy 6/6
The filthy LUCRE
will RAISE the GRAVE FRAME justly
and DRAPE trumping PRATE.
Robo 5/6
The weird ROUND thingy
Stuck in the STRIP fell APART
Yet they TRAPE and PRATE
Debbie Wilson 0/6
Malt SHAKE, CRANE melon
Picture FRAME, TRADE all to GRATE…
IRATE man needs cheese
auntie jj 3/6
prison PENAL code:
use PARVE ingredients
keep PRATE minimal
Mark 5/6
EARLY hook seems GREAT
Next they TRACE blame to IRATE
Then it’s just hate PRATE
Lari 3/6
My Lord, such a BEAST.
He taketh his PLATE at six
And then PRATE til ten!
Mick 4/6
Poem 1
no GUILE, just CHASE
not BRAVE with truth
meaningless PRATE
Poem 2
banter with no GUILE
two locked in a dodge, BRAVE CHASE —
chance succumbs to PRATE
Poem 3
GUILE among BRAVE toads
wicked crane leads the CHASE
PRATE clatch ends hunt