Short Circumlocution Poems

I'm a truly benign bibliotaph 
who sells used books for fun,
 & don't intend to make you laugh
 because I can't think of a good pun....

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circumlocution
noun ser-kum-loh-KYOO-shun 
1 : the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
2 : evasion in speech...

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The average price of a new car's up to $37, 185**
   Only a fool would expect it to take a nosedive
The Auto Industry's defense, more circumlocution
   Consumers' pockets picked; the time's ripe for revolution




**Source:  Kelley Blue Book, June 9, 2019...

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Trapped 'tween 
  adjectives' objections
succumbed to
  long-windedness,
snared 'neath an
  expanse of circumlocution,
paraphrasing periphrases 
   buried under layers
       of infused technicalities, 
all in a day's multiformity
   working midst the sublimity
           of poetry's madness...

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you say that I am wrong.
That my ideals are a misconception.
“Na” I say 
for you are wrong.
But then, you say the same.
This circumlocution gets no were.
I am the right one, but yet, you still persist. 
Fine the answer I will show
not with words 
the knife knows no such bonds! 
now who is wrong? 
I ask.
Respond less is the wind....

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circumlocution circumvent circumvent pump handle short
start fire they say its them here handle to short dian elecltronic
telephone hard verb putlize prize ecomic real code in paper
ranshao  business tv food posion not true doctor from
other country just a virus. bussiness steel said bad in
us and  qin chao dachi virus f waibi paper depress look at
john or har school...

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Coming together like living magic, breaking liquidity apart
More infused with passion, that never has an end or start
Strongly vibrant with rhythmic silent sounds, that be still a stoutly content beating heart
A misty circumlocution, talking in invisible tongues, struggling to be smart
Oh, how clouds are the skies very own well stocked al a carte
A water color of depth, changing per second, alive work of art...

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This story has no plot, no characters and nothing to say.  It will dissolve. 
Story no plot, no characters, nothing say. Will dissolve.
No plot, characters, nothing. Dissolve.
No characters, nothing solved.
No character solution.
No circumlocution.
Onward involution.
Onto confusion.
Colliding delusions.
Collateral damage.
Colossal disaster.
Collapsed.
Lapsed.
(And finally...)
d i s s o l v e d
i s s o l v e d
s s o l v e d
s o l v e d
o l v e d
l v e d
v e d
e d
d...

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