Let's write a Brokeback limerick! (How-to in first post)

[Fran]

Who is K.E.........??

Ennis's older brother.

Here's what Annie Proulx wrote -- this is while Jack and Ennis are at the Motel Siesta:

[Jack] went on, "Yeah, that little punch a yours surprised me. I never figured you to throw a dirty punch."

"I come up under my brother K.E., three years older'n me, slugged me silly ever day. Dad got tired a me come bawlin in the house and when I was about six he set me down and says, Ennis, you got a problem and you got a fix it or it's gonna be with you until you're ninety and K.E.'s ninety-three. Well, I says, he's bigger'n me. Dad says, you got a take him unawares, don't say nothin to him, make him feel some pain, get out fast and keep doin it until he takes the message. Nothin like hurtin somebody to make him hear good. So I did. I got him in the outhouse, jumped him on the stairs, come over to his pillow in the night while he was sleepin and pasted him damn good. Took about two days. Never had trouble with K.E. since. The lesson was, don't say nothin and get it over with quick." A telephone rang in the next room, rang on and on, stopped abruptly in mid-peal.

"You won't catch me again," said Jack. "Listen. I'm thinkin, tell you what, if you and me had a little ranch together, little cow and calf operation, your horses, it'd be some sweet life. Like I said, I'm gettin out a rodeo. I ain't no broke-dick rider but I don't got the bucks a ride out this slump I'm in and I don't got the bones a keep gettin wrecked.

[Katie77]

Thank you Fran....you know I have read the book, umteen times, and never really let that part impact on me or for that matter remember it.

I remember the "cow and calf" chat from Jack...but K.E. didnt ring a bell at all.

[CellarDweller]

K.E. slugged him silly every day
That is, till a new plan got underway
Ennis finally fought back

[Fran]

K.E. slugged him silly every day
That is, till a new plan got underway
Ennis finally fought back
With some quick surprise attacks

[CellarDweller]

K.E. slugged him silly every day
That is, till a new plan got underway
Ennis finally fought back
With some quick surprise attacks
and K.E. simply limped away

[mariez]

Great job with that last one!
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She offered him coffee and cherry cake

[CellarDweller]

She offered him coffee and cherry cake
a dessert that she did freshly bake

[mariez]

She offered him coffee and cherry cake
a dessert that she did freshly bake
the atmosphere was strained

[Katie77]

She offered him coffee and cherry cake
a dessert that she did freshly bake
the atmosphere was strained
All those things un-explained

[Kerry]

She offered him coffee and cherry cake
a dessert that she did freshly bake
the atmosphere was strained
All those things un-explained
With a deep sadness that he couldn't shake