from In Place of Chairs:
"VERBOPHOBIA
Got Game?

Make a poem with the following Word List, brought to you by The Lost Lunar Baedeker, by Mina Loy. Then send the poem to Christopher. He will post it. All will happiness be linear. Line ear be merrily, primates. Into the terrific Nirvana, Mina. Ze list:

Declivity, nucleus, extensity, malefic, gesticulated, kohl, scholiums, delectable, crickly, enervating, scuttle, wheedle, aphrodisiac, prismatic, jostling, jibber, cryptonyms, pantomime, sanctity, ferocious, furrowed."

"The Spectral Jihadi"
(to the tune of: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner)

Osama was the scion
Of a rich Saudi clan
When the jets & tanks of Brezhnev
Furrowed Afghanistan
His enervating leisure
His crickly scholiums
He hastened then to scuttle
For aphrodisiac guns

The volunteers came jostling
Their sanctity to suss
From ev'ry Muslim country
A fighting nucleus
Bin Laden shone among them
Ferocious & well-heeled
When Reagan's trainers got there
They quickly swept the field

Osa-ma the plush jihadi

Delectable their triumph
Over the Soviet line
Declivity & hillock
Saw abandoned soldiers dying
But their loyalty prismatic
Soon cut the wheedle cold
Osama gesticulated
And American targets told

Osa-ma the rogue jihadi
His own agenda's dark
As kohl, & countless cryptonyms
Convey his malefic spark

He's our misbegotten Frankenstein
Of vast extensity
For our acts increase Osama's terror band
Our acts increase Osama's terror band

Bin Laden sent a message
To jibber at us all
In pantomime over & over
We still must watch them fall
The Towers of our innocence
And it didn't help one bit
To drop upon Afghanistan
Lots & lots of shit

Osa-ma the missing jihadi

That ghostly terror mogul
Still flits from place to place
Even two years later
We haven't found a trace
In Syria, in Pakistan, North Korea too
Ubiquitous
He smiles at us
And then his smile dissolves
In
Static

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