Verb Boss City
Caught between the carrot and the stick
Generally speaking, puns are a simple literary device based largely on homophony (words sounding alike). While using words that sound similar but that carry different meanings for comedic effect is also known as paronomasia. Obviously, those last two terms aren’t as catchy or popular — but they do hint at the possibility of an increasing sophistication. Thus, today’s Anti-Poem proposes to raise the stakes in this game of throw-ins…
From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry.
Verb Boss City
Nobody wants to hear it;
Tiny brains cannot bear it:
Any outpour of adjectives
Accompanying their respective
Subjects to achieve a higher objective.
They were once believed to be blessings
Of superlative bliss, but lately
Sunny ideas meld together
While choral nocturnes
Turn into perverse
Techno trysts.
Red tail-lights pulsate
Like bloody irony through
The autobahn’s main artery.
Penthouse apartheid
Scrapes skies overhead
Because Phobos hates hoboes.
A gilded cage may suit the socialite parrots
However — jackrabbits — don’t chase after urban karats!
- Originally written 23/09/2016
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