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The Bashful Barbudo

With bravado, during a bayamo, A bashful barbudo with a propensity for dissentiousness Flits bottomward, toward a sand encrusted crusado A crusado, mayhap, wellaway once possessed by A seafaring hildalgo skittering Over cirulean crests What wry musing must the esurient bashful barbudo mull While it wends it way to the wayworn crusado? Once and now tantalized, the fearnought barbudo, Now disappointed over a once thought commestible Now ponders An omen? An augur? A delitescent apocalypse--of doom, or Delight? Oh, bashful barbudo, unmew this encrusted crusado: expugate it! Expurgate it form its extant niche Release its' recondite spectres anon, without cunctation What tales may it portend with a tactile congress? Wend not to your shoals yet; shun the skates importuning Now before a malevolent maelstrom wrests the soothsayer's crusado Away Vocabulary: barbudo-species polydactylus virginicus; crusado-Spanish coin; esurient-hungry,greedy

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