Carefully avoiding the word "cupid" does not pay the bills.

I'm a clever, yet poor fellow who, pid-

dly, earns less than old chums with their group id

My poet's heart says, "Your

cold money's no measure,"

But dammit, they're rich and yet stupid

An Awful, Ahistorical Account

Born Benjamin, bright Boston's bulky boy

Commandingly came courting countries' change

Did destiny decline? Did death destroy?

Ethereal, eschewed 'e Earth's exchange

For further — fifty fathoms — Franklin flew

Gargantuan, gouged George (God's glorified)

He hurdled Heaven's high hullaballoo

'is independence it inspired inside

Jejune, Judge John Jay jeerèd joyfully

Kept kinship kindled, killed King's knowing knights

Less lethal letters lashed lads' loyalty

More minions marched, made Massachusetts' might

(Need narrative net nuance? Nail named's node:

Of oozing offal, or odiferous ode?)

Must be the fumes.

We lounge in the steel mining pits erg-

onomincally while we eat grits.  Erg-

otism is common: we

've mold in our hominy!

That's how corn grows around Pittsburgh.

On ice.

Wayne Gretzky, who's nicknamed "The Greatest"

Had nary a clue I'm a sadist

So with dark schadenfreude

I laughed, and destroyed a

Rare Stanley Cup won by that skatist

Poedo or poedo not; there is no poetry.

Bad poems? It's true that I write 'em

So christ'ning a blog to highlight 'em

Where rhymes were the cruelest

Was on my to-do list

But now I can check off that item