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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

It's behooving to know what proficuous means (a stark vocabulary quagmire)






It’s behooving to know what proficuous means
(A Stark Vocabulary quagmire)
By Jon Slone




It’s the best news ever and you haven’t even told it.
Its gawking at the Cave Of Swallows blindfolded.
It’s nothing to pilfer when nabbed in a theft.
It’s a handful of dreams and just one day left.


It’s Jack and the Giant, bereft of some beans.
It’s behooving to know what proficuous means.



It’s like jumping in a creek with rocks in your head.
It’s the gaits to the Palace and they’re locked-up with thread.

It’s the best treats ever and you haven’t even tried’em.
It’s some taped-up boxes with nothing inside’em.

A plain empty salad.
A Woebegone gaze.
A sparse retelling of some hollowed-out days.


It’s some rabbit ears wending through vending machines.
It’s behooving to know what proficuous means.



It’s a tug-o-war match with nothing to tug.
It’s a gun with one slug and twelve people to plug!

It’s like taking you serious when your nickname is Booger.
It’s a kid in a candy store allergic to sugar.

It’s a self-made prison for the squandering poet.
A bard with the key and he doesn’t even know it.

It’s the Grand Canyon field trip, a meal for the masses.
And you were the one guy who misplaced his glasses.


It’s cleaning latrines in your top-dollar jeans.
It’s behooving to know what proficuous means.




Jon wordnerd Slone


By the way, proficuous means behooving.





The power of words people.

1 comment:

  1. Well once again you have outdone yourself and created a literary delight....and I love the way you keep repeating It's behooving to know what proficuous means...the rhyming is so clever and enjoyable that you just don't want it to end...it is literary dessert for this Thanksgiving season....enjoyed bunches...

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