Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 30, 2018

You try living out in the middle of nowhere, which is nowhere near anyone else, and working your tail to the bone day after day, 365. It will drive most people off-kilter.

The blind mice had better hope she’s deaf.

Gentlemen. Call it a hunch but you may be right!

the farmer’s wife is bloody queen marry who blinded and tortured 3 bishops( the 3 blind mice)

Such a sad bunch of tails!

Thereby hangs a tail – or three!

There was a time when the City of Hanoi was overrun with rats, so the mayor put a bounty on rats collecting the tails as proof of a dead rat. Then he started seeing a bunch of tailless rats. It seems that people figured that if they didn’t actually kill the rats, they would reproduce and keep an adequate supply of rats on hand.

At least she cleaned the blood off the knife.

Wail ’til you meet the farmer. From the picture on the mantle he looks like catman.

Don’t lose your head over a little bit of tail.

Well, she does keep a tidy house…

Better your tail’s than your heads, dummies.

When the skin falls off the bone, she snips the end and uses them to snort coke.

Three Blind Mice,Three Blind Mice,See How They Run,See How They Run,They All ran after the Farmer’s Wife,Who Cut off their Tails with a Carving Knife,Did You ever See such a Thing in your LifeAs Three Blind Mice?

A nursery rhyme that I learned aged about two-and-a half…