Exercises in style


After applauding adamantly anti-academic, avant-garde author, amateur animal audience—abandoning apprehensions, abolishing adolescent angst, and activating adventurous attitude—applies appealing absurd activities, attempts anaphora, acronyms, and acrostics, assembles anapests and amphibrachs, asserting artifice. Amateur animal author—also avidly alleluia-allergic, anal albeit apathetic, and amply ambitious—acquires alphabet addiction, accumulates arrhythmic adaptations, amusing aphorisms, auditorily agreeable anthems, and amiable allegories, all-in-all above-average art.

Poem inspired by the word “canton”

Can’t a tot oat a cat?
A tot cannot!

Can’t a cat con a tot?
A cat can!

’N tattoo a noon toot
A tan can
A coo coat
On an onan tot!