My decadence has
enough decency to last
quite externally.

Peanut butter snacks
are known to stick to the ribs
of curt ingesters.

When buses run late,
the entire universe feels
somewhat retarded.

Essays on "Lobster"
seem fashioned of clause on clause
too tightly gripping.

I've been striving hard
to inundate all systems
eager to lick me.

As we grow older
and attain forms of wisdom
our teeth turn to sludge.

The entire welkin
stands out as "a firmament
sky-high on effects."

Some timid insect
composes clever verses
on basic paper.

Pretentious nuisance:
I hereby apostrophize
all things comatose.

The vastness of truth
has been brought into question
by honest hecklers.

Absconding with goods
apparently is a game
that remains winning.

Functional unction
lacks rhyme and lacks much reason
yet can quite labor.

As we ramble on,
we might attempt less discourse
vagrantly chubby.

All fumigation
could stand some real debugging
when stings don't quite work.

Long hiatuses
we spend northwest of Haiti
teach much worth shipping.

Combined photographs
allow great forms of high art
to come to lightness.

Antithetical
to much civilized reason
is docile guessing.

Crocodiles I view
as exotic variants
of: "poached gringo."

I highly despise
fat goatees on any priests
who purr amidst kids.

Always deny kings
the deep sort of tolerance
that rules curtsies in.

Whatever we scream
in favo[u]r of lime sherbet
sounds plushly slushy.

Provoked into fights
are champion pugilists
by merest money.

Museums amuse
entire populaces sick
of much amazement.

Divinest guesses
by any parched water witch
could call for a dunk.

(Bruce, That varicose vein one nearly doubled me up!!! )


fog is a blanket
of concentrated wetness
just like some people

Our lineages
may nicely establish us
as "foully worthy."

Varicose veins may
tend to stand out as bulgers
beyond big relief.

Icicles dangle
glint and shine in the sunlight
like daggers unseen

Late developments
allow many news stories
to outrank themselves.

Microbes (big and small)
give scientists large chances
to debug humbugs.

The best Eskimos
used to dwell in fresh igloos
that would meld our hearts.

Gymnastics perform
services to shoddy bods
in search of pleasers.

Eternity foils
any and all sincere stabs
at cutting cancer.

From now on I swear
that most of my deep swearing
won't defy grammar.

Tinsel and gingerbread
bedeck our new Christmas tree --
O stars of David!

Christmas lights shining
Throughout the neighborhood
As they often should.
~Davidf

Far be it from me
to assume I wield English
exactly on cue.

Asterisks can help
many bland versions of text
ape stellar pizzas.

You never scold me
for behaving too gauchely
to stay quite left in.

Ready (though not set),
we scarcely could keep quick track
of questions erased.

Once I snort and croak,
various firms should seem fixed
for rattling prattling.

Laborious chats
under the rooftops of huts
provide scant chutzpah.

Political kids
never sport glaring goatees,
except when finking.

An inveigling clink
swiped the complete silences
of rued Valentines.

Elongated verses
passed through sweeter inversions
than slums felt -- inclined!