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Tanka
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Lavender sunset
clever clouds slowly saunter
across fading blue
Nightlights aroused from slumbers
winter notates return date
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Free verse
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inalienable, inimitable,
and inviolable sacrosanct
contentiously debated enshrined Constitution
ratified June 21, 1788
preceding hallmark Bill of Rights
(adopted effective December 15, 1791) rank
despite British Monarchy exerting, sans lanced
strong arm tactics in response to "FAKE prank
asserting original fledgling NON GMO,
gluten and msg free
thirteen American colonies
(with a great hee hoe)
severely itching for
(and declared) autonomy
from Britain with mojo
memorialized On July 2, 1776,
when Second Continental Congress,
(with more yes votes then no)
met in Philadelphia voting
unanimously, where this poe
whit notates historical
declaration of independence,
yet since Information Technology Revolution
trumps Founding Fathers (well nigh
almost two hundred
and fifty (CCL) year status quo
as into uncharted figurative waters
American Democracy doth row,
especially problematic to adapt
couched freedoms show
cased within storied
novel innovative though
now confounding, frustrating,
and immobilizing supposed call
ling on learned scholars
adept doctors at law,
resistant to brickbats
heaved by protesters with gall
or perhaps consulting
entertainers at Faneuil Hall,
how in tarnation can the tenets, rubric,
and precepts, sans seven score
and four plus orbitz ago
before advent of tele
communications companies
exhibited fiercely greedily
hungry indomitable up pall
ling monopolistic control,
via erecting a unscalable fire wall
authorized with an A okay by the FCC
Federal Communications Committee to glee
fully relinquish control
(blood) letting "Big Cable", thus
allowing, enabling, and promoting key
purrs of the Internet remain
under jurisdiction me
ning all content and applications
can willy nilly nee
i.e. be deliberately blocked as well
particular products or websites pre
venting unfettered access to thus re
choir ring every man, woman and child even three
yar olds to voice objection,
and take prescient action NOW!
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The broken piggy bank
strewn into a bajillion little pieces
Unexpected largesse
yours truly patiently waits,
a metaphor of my dire financial straits
courtesy papa's unsuspecting muse
the missus, this wordsmith notates
unwittingly linkedin to his misfortune,
a situation he hates,
especially, an unavoidable crisis,
whereby passage of time abates
negligible onus of penury.
Soon after surrendering
(viz laundering) cash to bitcoin
immediately realized sinister trap
scammer prepared me to enjoin
egregious outcome surpassing
severe case of acne
treatment courtesy isotretinoin.
My ordinarily clear complexion turned wan
imprecation triggered suicidal ideation
overdosing on medication
escape from absolute zero
vanished capital pennilessness bondage
welcoming self induced mortality did spawn.
Though weeks elapsed
since scammer
(smoked top of line cigars,
and/or quaffed vintage
amber liquid of the gods
signaling snagging a poor sucker)
made out like a bandit,
the squandered money
I still bemoan,
a grown man doth still groan
moroseness seeps
within his lovely bones
witnessing him curling
into fetal position versus lying prone
forever and anon envisioning himself
cast into the outer limits
of the twilight zone.
As a fool hardy way
to assuage loss,
where illusions of grandeur stray,
I regularly purchase lottery tickets
either Mega Million or Powerball
imagining being the lucky winner
then livingsocial
as a bachelor farmer in Norway
chomping down a delicious plateful
of powder milk biscuits
after countless hours pitching hay
while custom made robot named Barbie
adeptly programmed to prepare
Lefse, Krumkake, Lutefisk,
and Raspeball/Komle/Klubb,
she also doubles up as the abbé
of my fortress domicile.
Ha... an overactive imagination to boot
healthy escape from the maws of destitution
nevertheless, one old baby boomer coot,
who can prevaricate
knowing full well nobody
(especially the folks
from Lake Wobegon) cannot dispute
these marvelous turns of phrases I execute
while listening to The Magic Flute
an opera in two acts
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
to a German libretto
by Emanuel Schikaneder
and of course after wolfing down
Norwegian cuisine listed above,
I will need (sorry to be cheeky) exercise
thy well endowed glute
(short for gluteus muscles)
a group of muscles
that make up the buttock area,
which group consists
of the gluteus maximus,
gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus.
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Abecedarian
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Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!
Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid conversations.
Dandified Darius decided daring dialogue
Dangerously divisive, declined discourse,
Deliberately discrediting dainty discussions.
Even egregious Ethan engaged everyone else
Entertaining either eloquently or engagingly,
Entirely encountering emerging elocutions.
Flawlessly fomenting, forgetful Fernando
Freely fractured forensics for favored friends
Forever fellowshipping five fine fraternities.
Gaudy Giuseppe gained ground grinning
Grotesquely giving grand gestures gotten
Grander, gayer, grown grossly grandiose.
Heard Hector handily hankered his hummer
Helping handicapped Herbert’s husbandry
Hoping high-priced handyman helped.
Imogene ignored Ignatius’s incessant inquiries
Into inimitable imaginings, instead insulting
Isaac’s Informed, instructional information.
Jose justifies juggling jolly jokes jauntily
Joining Joe's joyful jangling jingles
Jest's justifies Jake's jungle jargon.
Kiefer, kindly kibbutzing, keeps knocking
Klutzy Karl’s keen keepsake kaleidoscope
Knick-knack knowing kosher knockwurst.
Louis lacked longer lasting language luminosity
Lately listing long, lame linguistic lamentations
Looking ludicrous, leveraging lingual lip-synching.
Merlin may malign my magnificent material
Making miscommunication matters miserable
Misconstruing Martin’s merry-making maddeningly.
Naomi neither notates numbers nor notations
Neglecting Nyla’s noticeable noncombative nature
Normally nice newlywed neighbors nearby.
Open opposition, or opposing oppositional oral
Observations, occasionally obliterates Opal’s
Opining obtusely over off-broadway offerings.
Percy proposed propositions pretending patience
Partially permissible, perhaps, per Pearl's proposal
Pardoning political programs profiting poorly.
Quiet quotations, quarrelsome quisling, quite
Questioning querulous qu**r quadriplegics quickly
Quantifies quality, questionable quarterlies.
Robust raconteur Roberto regularly reconsiders
Resounding recollections reverberating Rudi’s
Relinquishing roundtable rightly ricocheting.
Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority
Sometimes summarizing situations so subtly
She slips silent, suddenly somnambulistic.
(a continuing effort)
Written May 13, 2022
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