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Impetus for this poem was
kind of a child's game

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in which you're supposed
to get your friend

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to say the word without
saying it yourself.

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And I guess the word
for that is a nay word.

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Even though I don't-- when I
grew up I don't think that was

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the word for it, who
knows what the word was,

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if there was such a thing.

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"Riddle on a Nay-Word"

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"Keep it.

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Zip it.

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Don't utter a word.

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Not sure to what's referred.

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This equation doesn't sum.

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All jumbo mumbo.

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Chance and choke.

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The words, a code word, chum.

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Sing it as a butcher
bird might hum

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or the stumbling mumbler who
leaves the joke half heard,

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half ha, ha, half umm, or the
mummer from the dumb show,

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quite dumb, in a word, absurd.

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Or your mother, mummy, you're
her third, singing, sugar,

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sugar, sugar plum, a forward
and an after, one crossword

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in the works means gum
between this catch and key,

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you a blurred whirly
bird and numb.

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Perhaps though, the thoughts
occurred, the word is mum,

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mum's the word."