In the Realm of Abundance
What’s the matterhorn, dewy?
Cliff’s got you down, angle-
Ward, seems like or severing –
Want a pick-me-up palimpshade?
I gi’ ya kindly, fer ample sooth.
Garish isn’t swimmin’ in these parts.
Arrant iron is singlier.
Hosen buckle chamfered
Keeps limbs from clammin’, cold-
Beakered these climbs’ll clutch,
Jackallight skirling in grame,
Chasm-hurtling yer sport, ywen.
Come now, Charley, no fan-livered
Front ever game claimed, nor
Snookered snarling grails, face
Cryin’ fright or foil, it figures.
You got kin, embroiders?
Cotton me, son, diamonds in till?
Cotton me, William Tell,
Cotton me, rather,
Palaver of orfish swell:
You got game, don’t fell.
by Robert Mueller
February 7, 2002