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!

A chink in the clouds,
The gleaming eye of the sun
Peers down at the earth.

Still ridiculous,
I stay "rather mockable"
to turtles superb.

Correct procedures
should be followed slavishly
and adoringly.

I wish to admit
that most of my chatter stinks
while sounding "just fine."

Perceptive people
may tend to exist, I guess,
yet cannot last long.

I insist your shirts
always impress me a lot --
I'LL SAY OFF MY CUFFS.

Along with fresh whey
cottage cheese's main curds tempt
salivaed palates.

Primpers will declare
they aren't really at all vain
but like to worship.

Fudge put on ice cream
enriches any human
possibly enough.

We might acknowledge
the worth of profound learning
among hot natives.

I'm trying a form
never quite fully essayed
by meanest moderns.

The amazing grace
with which you play basketball
seems all too darned swish.

I won't genuflect
quite as often as saints might --
except in great need.

Forward-looking cats
quite cannily like water
when kibbled bits hiss.