Loose Lips Cost Lawns

Jun 19 19:00 UTC 1994

        Loose lips cost lawns,
        How many fescues died at dawn?
        The yard's carpet's an army, I say,
        Each blade a loyal green beret!

        My army's trained, well fed, and mowed,
        Full measure of rations on each blade bestowed,
        My fertile troops hold fast the ground,
        By deep roots to their motherland bound.

        But...

        Loose lips cost lawns,
        How many fescues died at dawn?

response 2 of 3:

Jul 11 06:50 UTC 1994

I've been dwelling on this one for a couple of weeks now.  I think that
"loose lips" is the key to the mystery.  If a lawn, a collection of
individual grass blades (fescues/soldiers), is an army, then where is
"the front"?  Possibly "loose lips" refers to mud-slides at the edge of
a lawn pushing grass over the edge, over the "lip" of the lawn, which
has become "loose".
These lips are where a lawn's trench warfare is carried out.  But then
why the sexual reference:  loose lips cost lawns/loose lips sink ships?
Maybe we'll never know.  
Why do fescues *necessarily* have to die at dawn?  Is it frost damage?
Does the morning dew/frost melt, seep into the ground (creating mud slides)
and contribute to loosening of the lips,  therefore killing fescues?  
This watery imagery certainly holds with the "loose lips sink ships"
nautical imagery.