ludic verbosity for the win
FILTH slowly lifts under the brush,
TRACEs of cuneiform start to show,
STONY witness says: “He who saw all . . .”,
FOLIO of clay, submerged in time, surfaced on a shelf.
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FILTH, TRACE, STONY, FOLIO
STIFF hairbrush braises my scalp –
QUOTH my mother, as of yore:
‘MUCKY little beast, clean up, or I’ll drive a
WEDGE between your hair and your brain.’
STIFF bulrushes keep crocs out; basket nestler will soon speak, a
QUOTHer of the quothiest words: fiats, ilocutions from on high.
MUCKY Nile a strange place for this story to start, but election is a
WEDGE, the axe of divine will splitting into a groaning world.
“STIFF upper lip,”
QUOTH the raven.
(MUCKY memory on that one.
WEDGEd homework between parties.)
WIMPY, PLUNK, FORAY, SHAKE
STIFF, QUOTH, MUCKY, WEDGE
EXPEL, ROGUE, PATCH, MINTY
OLDEN, HASTY, ADULT, OLIVE
IONIC bonding, molecular weights: such things
DAUNT me more than asking out Alicia Stevens, so I
BRIBE Simon Grandfield to help get my grade
NORTH of a C-.