Rome Was Felled in One Rerun

“Winter is coming”, they cried 
from the rooftops but silence only replied.

The city was on a  degringolade path. 
The youth were a primetiming bloodbath.

General Hospital was new on Netflix, 
the phalanx by Maxie Jones’ fake tears transfixed.

Dégringolade (noun)

a quick deterioration or breakdown, as of a situation or circumstance.

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Phalanx (noun)

a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files; broadly : a body of troops in close array; one of the digital bones of the hand or foot of a vertebrate; a massed arrangement of persons, animals, or things

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Primetiming (verb)

staying up late watching TV after midnight. Usually primetiming involves watching reruns of favorite shows.

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Me too

Addlepated nisus towards lust’s pursuit
Attenuates regard to disrepute

Addlepated (adjective)

being mixed up : confused; eccentric

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Attenuate (verb)

to reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken

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Nisus (noun)

an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse

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Spring’s Embrace

Gaia’s motley cloak
Swirling around tripping step
Fresh grass between toes

Gaia (noun)

the global ecosystem, understood to function in the manner of a vast self-regulating organism, in the context of which all living things collectively define and maintain the conditions conducive to life on earth; (also) the theory which proposes this.

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Motley (adjective)

variegated in color; made up of many different people or things

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Tripping (adjective)

proceeding with a light, easy movement or rhythm.

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An Ode to Fragile Night

Oh meiscus moon
You filled my night with Barmecidal light.
Each moment I stared upon you,
With hope and delight, wishing you would turn
Your gaze back upon me.
Sweet sliver in the sky,
You held nothing but an auxiliary candle
To the glory of daylight.

Auxiliary (adjective)

offering or providing help; functionary in a subsidiary capacity; supplementary or constituting a reserve

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Barmecidal (adjective)

giving only the illusion of plenty

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Meiscus (noun)

the curved surface of a column or liquid; something having a crescent shape

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Plume

The ostrich bloom 
ostentatiously embellished 
her already peccable 
sense of self.

Embellish (transitive verb)

to make beautiful, as by ornamentation; to decorate; to add fictitious details to exaggerate the truth.

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Ostentatious (adjectivie)

attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness; overly elaborate or conspicuous; characterized by, fond of, or evincing obstentation

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Peccable (adjective)

liable to sin or error

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A Poop Joke

Full of donnish flair and a pensive confidence,
His funsies often included incontinence.

Donnish (adjective)

bookish, pedantic

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Flair (noun)

a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something; talent; inclination or tendency; a uniquely attractive quality; style

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Funsy (noun and adjective)

diversion, entertainment, fun; often in for funsies; in order to amuse oneself; a prank or practical joke

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Rest Well, My Friend

A tangle of letters destined to trip the tongue
Reminder of the caducity of expression
A tremor in the hand, a stutter in the mouth
Become a mutual nod of acknowledgment.

The metathesis leaves me silent
What molecules make up the soul?
Eudemonic accident we met,
Cruel fragility we part.

Caducity (noun)

frailty, transitoriness

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Eudemonic (adjective)

relating to or conducive to happiness

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Metathesis (noun)

a change of place or condition, transposition of two phonemes in a word, a chemical reaction in which different kinds of molecules exchange parts to form other kinds of molecules

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Debt Worth Paying

He willingly applied his John Hancock to the purchase of
Peacocks, Champaign glasses, fireworks for the final
Girandole of the evening.

This is our bada din, he had reassured her as she dressed in
silks, lace, and pearls, glimmering and redolent
Against a lake of light.

Bada din (noun)

a notable or significant day esp one on which an important festival or momentous event takes place

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Girandole (noun)

a radiating and showy composition such as fireworks; an ornamental branched candlestick; a pendant earring usually with three ornaments hanging from a central piece

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John Hancock (noun)

a person’s signature

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