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The simplest of words can often trigger an original palindrome. Have a nice trip? I did. The Palindrome Composer came through again. Trip reverses to pirt, with a split of pir-t. A handful of words end in pir, including tapir. “Trip tapir t” is not a palindrome, but “trip a tapir t” is. I didn't bother to look through all the words that begin with T. I just chose today and called it good.

Every day as I’m pulling into the parking lot at work, I pass the same “One Way” sign on my right. Occasionally I think I should yaw to starboard and go tearing down that street in the wrong direction, just to break the shackles of routine. But whenever I think there’s no way to push onward, I take solace in the power and fun of words, and I keep on yawing toward the distant harbor.

Since I use the word compose (and its variants) frequently when discussing the Palindromedary, I thought I should try to use it in a palindrome. I chose the esop-moc split because the first thing I noticed was that esop is part of the fabled name Aesop. Putting all that together, I got this:

compose a Aesop moc

For a while I tried words beginning with moc. The Palindromedary only lists seven and I began with mocha. I was thinking of Aesop composing all night and needing mocha to keep going. Never mind the anachronism. That didn't work out as I expected.

The last three words I examined were mock, mocker and mocks. K is often difficult to work into a palindrome, but I got lucky. I tried mocks first.

sk compose a Aesop mocks

Can you guess what happened next? Aesop mocks it. A predictable result if a newby gave Aesop a fable to critique. The palindrome expanded like this.

tisk compose a Aesop mocks it

On a whim I tried putting the word story in the middle. To maintain the symmetry, I also added the reverse, leaving out the y: story rots. From there, a bit of punctuation makes it all hang together.

Thinking that she would achieve a more lucrative deal, Dianne disguised herself as a famous baseball player.