Rhymes With Orange
Dedicated to Lisa Haneberg
They say that nothing rhymes with “orange.”
I submit the word “door hinge.” The hinge of a door.
Orange. Door hinge.
Is it cheating to use a compound word
to complete the rhyme?
I honestly don’t care.
Have you heard the rhymes
Bob Dylan comes up with?
I do not think I have ever seen
an orange door hinge.
I don’t think anyone has ever had
an orange door hinge.
Or else surely the misguided myth
that nothing rhymes with orange
could not have persisted this long.
Now we can anoint a true unrhyme-able word:
antidisestablishmentarianism.