Yellowished Means Wellowished, from Bobby Goosey's Nonsense Verse for Kids

 

Bobby Goosey

Yellowished Means Wellowished

Wishes are colored light yellowish

When the wishes are wished in a shimmer of sun.

Never wish wishes beneath cloudy skies,

For cloudy-wished wishes are mellowish.

You want your wishes light yellowish.

 

Why are best wishes light yellowish?

Why wish your wishes in dazzling sunshine?

Why not wish wishes dull mellowish?

Well. Light-yellow wishes are bound to come true.

God tends to favor them; Allah does too.

 

So wish all your wishes light yellowish;

Wish wishes always in sun’s shimmer-gleam.

And when all your light-yellow wishing is done,

Pack up your wishes in boxes and run

Off through the pines; take a wishy fun-run.

 

Be sure you’ve labelled the boxes as follows:

“Wishes boxed up in light yellowish.

These boxed-up wishes aren’t mellowish.

These wishes quaver like lemony jellowish.

Wishes well wished, wishes wellowished.”

 

[Original date of composition: some time in the 1970s or 1980s

Revised, rewritten by Bobby Lee Goosey, July 31, 2022]