At the risk of coming off turgid
I offer this tale esoteric
Hoping it’s not found insipid
Nor causes one to be apoplectic
But rather received with alacrity
Without the need for paroxysm
My word there’ll be no chicanery
And avoidance of anachronism
Far from being sesquipedalian
Nor need for any razzmatazz
The tale of the slubberdegullion
Who thought himself full with pizzazz
Though being so supercilious
His affect stirred only dudgeon
Any good was so very fugacious
From this untoward tatterdemalion
Yet still he persisted a mumpsimus
If you will, and worse a panjandrum
So aggravating and rumbustious
Redeeming qualities not a modicum
An unquestioned snollygoster
Given to being quite vagary
An ill-reputed hugger-mugger
And a voice of such cacophony
But I see that you are insouciant
And consider my warning malarkey
Since you wish to be recalcitrant
My apologies for being persnickety
I end my tale of the rapscallion
Without further ado or rigmarole
Avoiding becoming ultracrepidarian
I have met my supererogatory parole
Per the pundits
a word from out of the blue
No etymology, nor origin
no correct spelling too
Who cares where it came from
or where it is going
I'll happily attach it to
the way the wind's blowing
When Heard dared to question her partner,
men suited up in outraged armour.
Battling patriarchy,
this ‘feminist’ malarkey,
makes women prey and men the archer.
WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH,
THE TOUGH LEAVE TOWN?
Two more cities fall to the Taliban.
Send Harris there, that laughing pelican!
Uncle Joe says; "So sorry, to hear!"
"I am off on vacation for Malarkey Beer!
Inflation is up, Uncle Joe denies it.
Tent cities, crime, a nation in the pits.
And I heard him say as he boarded Air Force One"
"My wife still has the hottest buns!"
He slipped on the stairs and mumbled.
"No problem! You all enjoy those cool street rumbles."
"Dr. Fauci will be taking my place, so~
"Take that vaccine, and do not grimace!"
"You Californians, you must keep Newsom."
"He's my man~~a true Marxist cousin!"
8/13/2021
2am PST
A woman must show what she's got
So a man can tell if she's hot
But all men are cruel
And live by this rule:
The woman sleeps on the wet spot!
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