I Am the Pox of Vox — Worship Me!
The Guttural Utteral — Fear Me!
I am the pox of vox
Approx'in' outside the box
I find the gutteral utteral,
And rhyme the countercultural
.
I'm the jokalization of vocalization
That imprimaturs texted contextual damnation
I state the stately worldly words of absurd
Suiting me with slurs, for- and backwardly, blurred
.
I cull the stampede of the call of words unheard
Cherrypicking for mo'better words from the herd
And breed the inbred more-lettered verbs
From scatalogical four-letter words preferred
.
A phraser-taser phrasing the phrases
That cuff you and then stings you with mazes of lasers
And roughly spoken from the verbal assaulters
Who fall back on last word-haver defaulters
.
I am the chyme of rhyme
Prosaic in trochaic time
Driving my riders in the hearse of verse
Carrying carrion that can't get wordly much worse
.
A meter defeater and lipreader repeater
A spondee respondee and X-platform re-Tweeter
And reader unseater and midlife wife-beater
Who writes about life's dead words from grim reapers
.
I am impiety of notoriety
And the satiety of impropriety
Doling out wrongs with umlauts and diphthongs
Even in dipwrong überglyphic insobræ'ty
.
The ass of assonance
With abundance of comeuppance
Rolling ripples of illiterate alliterations
Better 'literated as literate respited reiterations
.
I am sentence dependence
Sans sentient repentance
I am the maelstrom of poem
With much more than then-some
.
Poetic injustice
Hacking mopheme pertussis
In the gutter of suckling utters
At the vulgarian's struggling udders
.
I wax manic in ambit iambic
For I am what I am it
A depression of expression
Inviting recession
.
I climb the vile pile of bibliophile style
As a man who descends where no man's an isle
I teach learned-not burned-out lessons of wit
In spurt-out churned-out sessions retrofit
.
Thrumming sonorous malodorous
Drumming free verse visibly vice-versus
I am the frack of frickin' fricatives
Trolled with bowls visibly expletive
.
When simply said is said and done, done
I singly cannot be outdone
Skimming off the top
I'm the final glottal stop
.
And the wordsmith pullies I blacksmith herewith
Are laced with cookies you should reject forthwith
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned Catholic church in Hull, MA. Phase I: was New Orleans (and everything that entails).
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
email: [email protected]
Comments (2)
This might be satire? I love these pieces where you go all out with the wordplay! In Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha" the title character has a conversation with the Buddha where the Buddha, out of respect, warns him to "Beware of being too clever"... and man, does it get us in trouble? Sure it does, sometimes, but like Siddhartha tells the Buddha (and I am paraphrasing here): your way is awesome, but it's not the only way. Speaking personally, I have found the clever take on life first exceedingly alienating, but then beautifying, then redeeming and revivifying. Maybe I enjoyed this too much! But thank you! You have made my day in turn!
This is magnificent.