Canna W
Anatomy of a Poet
Needs to be read aloud (for 1st language English speakers only!)
her footle is connected
to her frumpy-rumple-doo
which conspirigates itself around
her antiperspypoo
her post-lymphatic gangeroids
located in each ear
avoid her situponicles
located in the rear
her polyglotic femuroidal
sophoglatic phlange
hangs very loosely in between
and guards against the mange
her angeroidal metacarpis
just above the chest
contracts to hyperventilate
and aeriates her vest
constricted by contabulations
round about the heart
are brillopaddic bumbly-tracts
which meet then fall apart
her streptopickle-plonking button
just below the ribs
recedes in stormy weather
or when she’s telling fibs
her cybernetic clacker-wibble
wobbles when she walks
her tackytetro-telemachus
giggles when she talks
her secondary pontefract
pulsating near the spleen
emits a pulmonary spray
and turns a putrid green
her vacillating vladivostok
often lying dormant
is known to burst its bladderbog
and cause a sudden torment
her catalytic shifter
which is often out of use
installs itself quite neatly
in her Ashby-De-La-Zouche
her megalythic marlybone
is just like yours or mine
and it swivels in a socket at the bottom of her spine
at dinner-time her heebiegeebie
gastronominater
consolidates her consomme
and purifies it later
but
her poetetic persiflage
is what she uses best
that’s the bit that writes the poems
and it never takes a rest
ANN ZIETY
Anatomy of a Poet
Needs to be read aloud (for 1st language English speakers only!)
her footle is connected
to her frumpy-rumple-doo
which conspirigates itself around
her antiperspypoo
her post-lymphatic gangeroids
located in each ear
avoid her situponicles
located in the rear
her polyglotic femuroidal
sophoglatic phlange
hangs very loosely in between
and guards against the mange
her angeroidal metacarpis
just above the chest
contracts to hyperventilate
and aeriates her vest
constricted by contabulations
round about the heart
are brillopaddic bumbly-tracts
which meet then fall apart
her streptopickle-plonking button
just below the ribs
recedes in stormy weather
or when she’s telling fibs
her cybernetic clacker-wibble
wobbles when she walks
her tackytetro-telemachus
giggles when she talks
her secondary pontefract
pulsating near the spleen
emits a pulmonary spray
and turns a putrid green
her vacillating vladivostok
often lying dormant
is known to burst its bladderbog
and cause a sudden torment
her catalytic shifter
which is often out of use
installs itself quite neatly
in her Ashby-De-La-Zouche
her megalythic marlybone
is just like yours or mine
and it swivels in a socket at the bottom of her spine
at dinner-time her heebiegeebie
gastronominater
consolidates her consomme
and purifies it later
but
her poetetic persiflage
is what she uses best
that’s the bit that writes the poems
and it never takes a rest
ANN ZIETY