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The ZEITGEIST of 60's and rock,
The era of pot and Woodstock;
Rank flower power:
Avoidance of shower,
The grubbiest lifestyle ad hoc.
--- Chris Papa

Slick Willy, a ZELIG supreme,
Could bite his lip and make it seem
That he really cared
And all your pain shared,
While eyeing new chicky to cream.
--- Chris Papa

He came near rear end of a heifer,
Who let loose a blast, not a ZEPHYR.
The smell dissipated
But the lad was fated
To live life much wiser, but deafer.
--- Chris Papa

Spouse Hymie would to Sarah come,
To play game she thought ZERO-SUM.
For as she had reckoned,
He came in second,
Just leaving her there cold and numb.
--- Chris Papa

A restaurant diner, a bum,
Possessed in his purse, zero-sum.
Sans cash for his dish,
As wash was his wish;
The outcome? He's still no income.
--- Gary Hallock

Black and white winning means ZERO-SUM,
The game in which some heroes hum.
The problem, of course,
In matters of force,
while Rome does burn, fiddling Nero's numb.
--- Daniel Ford

ZEROTH rating might not remain true,
If young man knew just what he should do.
Wham-bam as you can
Is not always best plan,
To loosen a tightened up screw.
--- Elois

Harry Truman was thought to be screwy,
With his chances ZEROTH against Dewey.
The mustachioed crime basher
Should defeat haberdasher,
But predictions turned out to be hooey.
--- Elois

The young bride rated as ZEROTH lover,
As frigid as one might discover.
But urgent groom tried
To get warm inside
From frostbite, he'll never recover.
--- Chris Papa

A ZEUGMA, when done in perfection,
Requires a bit of reflection
To understand what
Its author has got,
In form of cerebral connection.
--- Chris Papa

Alpaca or mohair ZIBELINE
Or even camel hair velveteen,
They leave me a twitchin'
From all of that itchin';
I'd trammel that stuff to smithereens.
--- Daniel Ford

My sister and I were a quibblin';
She envied my outfit of ZIBELINE.
"Such nice things I lack, uh
So I think alpaca
My bags and just leave," said my siblin',
--- Gary Hallock

I once wore a ZIBELINE suit,
Cut in the style one called "zoot".
A nice girl I courted
Till her father snorted,
"Get out!" as he gave me the boot.
--- Chris Papa

Young Chris much have looked very cute,
Decked out in his new zoot suit.
Bod covered in ZIBELINE,
Hair slicked with vaseline,
The picture of fashionable youth.
--- Norm Brust

ZIBELINE suits are no way to go
Up here in land of ice and snow.
In icy breezes
To keep you from "freezes",
One wraps up in down, don't you know.
--- Barb

It's snuggly and keeps you quite warm;
Neck, chest, and fanny; each arm.
A hood with a ruff
Will be just enough
To keep you from Old Winter's harm!
--- Barb

The walking dead described as Zombie
Might just be clerks at Abercrombie
& Fitch, though I know
They always go slow,
And not to seem busy as some be.
--- Daniel Ford

My ZOOMORPHIC shape, I will tell
When young, might be seen as gazelle.
But now that I've aged,
The animal caged
I see is the hippo from Hell.
--- Chris Papa

ZOOMORPHIC were icons of old,
There was a fat cat made of gold,
Some snake with a smile,
Crying crocidile,
And sometimes a bull's phallus bold.
--- Chris Papa

He got to her brain; 'twas endorphic;
No hint he was heteromorphic.
She wound up in his bed,
Where she learned, to her dread,
His love making style -- ZOOMORPHIC.
--- Frank

ZOOMORPHIC? I'm just at a loss
To say if I am. That's because
The speed of a steed
Is just what I need.
But I'm more than a sloth than a hoss.
--- Gary Hallock

O, heroes, avaunt and beware
Of Medusa's grim petrified glare;
Through intercourse orphic,
Her hair ZOOMORPHIC,
Turns dishes like him to stoneware.
--- Chris Papa

I think it would average guy miff,
When, of slinky gal he got a whiff,
And likely as not,
When feeling hot,
Found that his whole body was stiff.
--- Chris Papa

The plant-like animal, ZOOPHYTE,
Does hold to the bottom quite tight.
For its life sessile,
Like other Cecil,
Depends on matching bottoms to site.

(Ready when you are, Mr deMille)
--- Daniel Ford

Observing the graceful ZOOPHYTE
With waving motion and colors bright.
They're achored to stones
And they have no bones,
And are even bereft of sight.
--- Norm Brust

There are kids, at parent's insistence,
Who lead ZOOPHYTIC existence.
These "babies" never wed
Or leave their birth bed,
Anchored with sponge-like persistence.
--- Chris Papa

With ZUGZWANG one has to face
Position in the human race,
Somewhat circumscribed;
Can best be described
As "between a rock and a hard place.
--- Chris Papa

ZUGZWANG, you're all locked in, not free,
A rotten position to be.
Like hard place and rock,
Situation ad hoc,
Seems Scylla-Charybdis to me.
--- Chris Papa

ZUGZWANG gives losing decision voice,
With but little reason to rejoice.
Strategy defied,
With no place to hide,
Presenting dilemma, Hobson's choice.
--- Daniel Ford

A ZUGZWANG, as everyone knows,
Is a bummer however it goes.
You can't run and hide,
But you must decide
Between options -- once sucks and one blows.
--- Eric Seaberg

With Webster I really am miffed
But it was a generous gift.
I use it a lot
But it hasn't got
All the answers I want. I've been stiffed!
--- Kiss Karen

But we are still even you know.
Respect for you, it does grow.
That "tallywacker's"
Twisted my knackers.
It's making me feel very slow.
--- Archie

I think in the end I will lose,
But for now I'll just tighten the screws
Of my thinking hat,
'Til I fall on my prat,
And pumpern to hear your peeyoos
--- Kiss Karen

This is file kwl

But sneer? Oh no, that would be dumb;
Don't let your nards get all numb.
A tallywacker's
Probably kept near your knackers,
And makes all the women go hummm...
--- Kiss Karen

Your offer of hot chips and ged,
Could lead to us both being fed.
With wine just for two,
It might be that you
Could possibly take me to bed!
--- Archie

But leftover ged should be fed
To this next, who has a nice head.
He is called a sealgh
And can live on whelk,
And uses Scots rocks as a bed.
--- Archie

Here's wine, will you please fill our cups?
A viognier, enjoy a few sups.
The water's ker-plonk
Recalls I brought conch
And fresh tautog to give the wet pups.
--- Archie

Food helps me so much when I'm thinking,
But then I may find myself sinking
Into the small death
'Tween this and that breath,
And all of the fish leaves me stinking
--- Kiss

Though Doc's CHIROGRAPHY is rank,
A hieroglyph on Rx blank,
It brings derision.
He keeps cheery vision,
And whistles his way to the bank.
--- Chris Papa

If they ever write my biography,
I hope they will use good CHIROGRAPHY,
Listing every good deed
So that it's a good "read",
With praise for my female topography!
--- Barb

Mau Mau might be DITTOGRAPHY,
But Swahili's good as can be;
A Bantu-like tongue
Spoken well among
East African tribes near the sea.
--- Larry

DITTOGRAPHY is the condition
Where one who would make exposition
By page or by lip,
They then by sly slip,
Get caught in mistake's repetitition.
--- Chris Papa

This strange term, my interest is piquing
And for some examples I'm seking,
But I can not tel
When there's one. What the hel?
I'm slow, HAPLOGRAPHICLY speaking.
--- Gary Hallock

Letter deletion, HAPLOGRAPHY,
Happens less in lexicography
Than in speech direct,
Where words like dissect
Are altered in strange phonography.

(diss-ect not di-ssect)
--- Daniel Ford

Symbolic stand-in, LOGOGRAPH,
Like musical notes on a staff,
May cover all parts,
As do lines in charts,
Though some think them snakes in the graph.
--- Daniel Ford

LOGOGRAPH symbols save time,
Unless as rebus they're sublime.
For them, like Chinese
Ideograms please,
I comprehend less than from mime.
--- Daniel Ford

No boxer was > Thomas
(A very good friend of my momma's)
@ the start of the round,
He'd get up and #
And each night he'd take on all ,s
--- Bill

But with the bell's next ringing clash,
He'd nip off (he said for a flash),
Worn out and weary, he'd
Fight for a .
But thereafter, off he would -
--- Bill

Ma` once kept, I am told
A { of geese, whose eggs she sold
For their price it was noted,
Many $ were "ed
But they were 24 ^ gold
--- Bill

The gaggle of geese in her [
No doubt made considerable racket
Each time that they laid
An egg golden grade,
Helping the collector to track it.
--- Daniel Ford

LOGOGRAPHS save printing spacce,
Computers have joined in the race,
And added "sign bliss",
With figures like this,
The omnipresent, blythe : )
--- Chris Papa

I'm taking a computer class
And it does more than the time pass!
It's fun for me
And I can see
LOGOGRAPHS might be a blast!
--- Maggie

ORTHOGRAPHY, the study of spelling;
Histography, of the past it is telling.
Pick scholar's pursuit,
But if you like loot,
Pornography is the best selling.
--- Norm Brust

ORTHOGRAPHY seems, if you will,
Most useful to have as a skill,
To write and make sense,
And not cross the fence,
Ot illiterate overkill.
--- Anon

Learning good spelling, ORTHOGRAPHY,
Is difficult in geography;
What my tongue calls right
In another's sight,
Becomes malignant typography.
--- Daniel Ford

Standard spelling, ORTHOGRAPHY,
As precise as cartography,
Sometimes is bludgeon
Used by a curmudgeon
To raise his plethysmography.
--- Daniel Ford

ORTHOGRAPHY's needed no doubt,
If you'd get a smart e-mail out.
Without your spell-check,
Thoughts can be a wreck;
Signs of an illiterate lout.
--- Chris Papa

Philography's better than sex
For some guys, for reasons complex.
But to my good taste
It just seems a waste,
Unless it involves signing checks.
--- Chris Papa

PLETHYSMOGRAPH, guage automatic
Shows if big head swelling or static.
But it also can show
The regions below
And detect influence Viagratic.
--- Chris Papa

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, scrolls in caves,
Hidden far above Dead Sea waves,
Had little to do
With Biblical stew
And much more with wine barrel's staves.
--- Daniel Ford

PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, biblical stuff,
Was lacking attribution, enough;
Interesting but
Couldn't "make cut";
Had to swallow rejection slip, tough.
--- Chris Papa

My Jack Armstrong decoder ring
Solved messages, the very thing;
STANOGRAPHY tool
Used in grammar school,
To sense of deep mystery bring.
--- Chris Papa

Lemon juice STEGANOGRAPHY
Makes invisible ink, you see;
Dip your pen in it,
Write on white a bit,
When it's dry, no note will there be.
--- Larry

To read it one must have a candle;
Flame below paper must handle.
Words appear above,
"Battle" or "Love",
Which then can be hidden is sandal.
--- Larry

A MANIA for the zings of EROS
May lead to story which one harrows,
As suffers Clinton,
Lewinsky's hintin',
Outrageous fortune's slings and arrows.
--- Daniel Ford

EROTOMANIA, frankly, my dear,
Is just a big pain in the rear;
It often explains,
Why some guys with brains
Think with the wrong organ, I fear.
--- Chris Papa


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