marvelous monstrosity.

I’ll use every trick I know,

Every device that I can muster;

Persuasion, reason, promises,

Shouted slogans and spluttering bluster,

Soaring metaphors, silly similes, fake indignation,

And, above all, articulate avalanches of absolute alliteration.

So why am I deploying

This tsunami of pompous verbosity?

It’s because our language

Is a marvelous monstrosity.

Priests, preachers, politicians, poets, playwrights, persuaders all

Spray us daily with this stuff,

I was going to say “don’t listen!”,

But I just can’t get enough.