Policar, 2004.
The harlequin's burlesque's sometimes devout.
In overcadenced villanellic verse
We whisper softly what we seek to shout.
A harridan's obeisances to a galahad's hegemony are met by those with expertise with doubt.
Like surcingles for ceolenterates or missals for a cantor, they juxtapose what wisdom would disperse.
The harlequin's burlesque's sometimes devout.
Like caudal dehiscing's predictable issuing of some ten-cruzeiro bouillon's visceral route
They offend the very senses with their evident offense, what they annoint as if to bless they serve to curse.
We whisper softly what we seek to shout.
Yet her usufruct's defensible: through hypocritic limning all her galahad's deceptions are brought out.
Her submission is subversive, manumissive of your doubt: what she at last confesses bad you know is worse.
The harlequin's burlesque's sometimes devout.
Her trapunto stitches layers of the fractured body politic with the outline of a post-dynastic lout.
As we canvass his deception from conclusion to inception his pronouncements public daily grow more terse.
We whisper softly what we seek to shout.
Fear incipient psychosis, and your stress-induced psilosis, but remember as he nears his final bout
Those who listened to his lies and stormed the shores and filled the skies and now can't excercise their franchise from a hearse.
The harlequin's burlesque's sometimes devout.
We whisper softly what we seek to shout.
(This was inspired by: Zipcar Spelling Bee Team Takes Second Place Dear Boston Zipsters, Thank you all for your support of the Brookline Foundation's 11th annual Spelling Bee which raised money for Brookline Public Schools. The Zipcar team turned in an astounding rookie showing by taking second place (out of over 50 teams). The team was made up of members Jennifer, Bob and Kei. They made us proud! Here are the words they spelled: expertise, cantor, galahad, missal, harridan, hegemony, anoint, limn, canvass, trapunto, visceral, caudal, bouillon, psilosis obeisance, usufruct, cruzeiro, surcingle, coelenterate, villanelle, dehisce Now it is your turn: Use ALL the words in a short paragraph--250 to 500 words, that hangs together grammatically and makes sense. Extra points are awarded to entries that contribute to human knowledge or progress, and extra, extra points to those that do so adhering to the poetic form of a villanelle (in which case, you don't have to use that word). The best entry will be awarded a $50 driving credit. Hit reply and have at it. Stephen Oakley, Director, Zipcar Boston