A Good Telling Off

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If you don't struggle up the mountain
what can you carry down?
If you can't jog the miles per day
you'll wobble like a clown.
Such idle, pick-nose poetry
will never gain a crown.

'Ah to hell with it!' screeched the cockatoos.

So happy go lucky,
so yacky go clucky,
so tacky go gucky,
so hacky go schmucky,
you're a pebble-dash vernacular,
not much of architecture.
Got no posture;
can't deliver the lecture.

'Ah to hell with it!' screeched the cockatoos.

You bear no faith, have no
truck with that suggestive gas
whispering out of caverns.*
You're too old for the taverns,
steer clear of politicians.
No whining 'Oh, alas,'
when you dice with meritricians*
and debase the coinage so.

'Ah to hell with it!' screeched the cockatoos.

The trouble with you and your ode
is you don't deploy poetic code;
you should force them to think,
while the sub-text's a wink,
you're that white line that stitches a road.

'WTF!' screeched the cockatoos!

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The delphic oracle, Pythia, may have been under the influence of ethylene gas, it has been mooted

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The delphic oracle, Pythia, may have been under the influence of ethylene gas, it has been mooted.

In my coinage today, meretricians are folks who habitually write meretriciously  - it glitters but is just bling.







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