ODES ON THE LETTER O

THE OBITUARY OBSERVED THAT OBESITY AND OBLIQUITY
WERE THE PROBABLE CAUSES OF DEATH.

THE OBSERVATORY WAS PRACTICING OBSCURANTISM.

THE OBNOXIOUS OBSEQUY WAS OBSCENE.

THE PACHYDERM AND EEL

The Egocentric
Eel liked to eat
Eggplant with Veal.

The Eletist and
Effete Elephant
Liked to Masticate
Eggs Benedict and Seal.

LOONEY TUNE

The Silk and Silver
Silurian
Sang
A
Sinister
Tune
To
A
Slimeball
That
Slinked and Slithered
In
Slow
Motion
Across
A
Smuggy and Smelly
Lagoon.

THE H FACTOR

The Humongous Hunchback
Humped
The Hungover and Hungry
Humpback
And the Hunky
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa
Hunted for a
Husband.

A WHORE'S TALE

The whore who'd been whomped was
Wholly wholehearted with
Whomever she whooped
And had whoopee with.

STAR APPLES

The
Stargazer
Was struck
By
The
Starfish
Staring
At the
Sweet Star
Apples
Appareled
In
Stardust.

ASTRONOMICAL ARGUMENT

Ariel and Argus
Argued with Ariadne
About
Aristrocracy
And
Astronomy.

THE MISSING LINK...SAUSAGE

THE SAVVY SAVAGE
SAUTEED HIS
SAVORY SAUSAGE
WITH SAVOIR-FAIRE.

On William Butler Yeats

YEATS YELPED
AND YAWPED
ABOUT
LIFE AND
NATURE.

PREHISTORIC EYES

THE TRILOBITE
FROM TRINIDAD
WORE A TRILBY
AND LIKED TO TRILL
WHENEVER HE TOOK
A TRIP ON HIS
TALL TRICYCLE.

LIFE'S ANTIOXIDANTS

APOTHEGMS AND APHORISMS
ARE LIFE'S ANTIOXIDANTS.