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Sesquipedalian (With Apologies To Ogden Nash)

My poems are somewhat, in fact quite a lot, not to put too fine a point on it, just a bit or, notwithstanding everything else I will say, a great deal sesquipedalian;

They are packed full, to wit, of long-winded words that don’t fit and ululating complicated and multi-syllabic, incomprehensible terms that feel almost alien.

I’m not sure if, for cash, that flash, brash Ogden Nash hasn’t had the notion of creating this version; if not, then he should have done

Or whether, if other bards in that scene had thought really hard of a means of fitting “sesquipedalian” in, they would have done.

But these trite tongue-twisters titillate the tonsils and test the talker

And I like lines that don’t quite rhyme, even though they ought to.

My odes ramble on as I try to make simile and metaphor fit.

I think it’s fine fun and that they just sound better for it.

But some of that ilk try to milk your emotions

With a totally misplaced unfounded notion

You should cram every short sentence;

Mine just go on and lengthen.

It’s not my fault that I chose

To be quite over-verbose.