A Writer's Best Friend

I wrote this in my Monday night writer's group. I was thinking about brevity and some of the things I've learned about the craft of writing. Because I haven't figured out spellcheck yet on my new laptop, I apologize in advance for any misspelled words.

Who the heck is the narrator in this poem? That may be the silliness of it all.

Love kj

Take me on vacation

I’ll toss a proclamation

I’ll show you how to flutter,

to mutter, to stutter,

I’ll astonish, admonish, and stew.

I know how to be bold

slicing through the ice cold

I’ll be here when your colors run dry.

I’ll tackle and spackle

fractile and cackle

Together we’ll casade into blue

I won’t let you down,

Even way across town

I’ll tilt and I’ll twist and I’ll rant

We’ll regret, we’ll beset, we’ll procure on a bet

Cast the wind, fall on sin, refuse to give in

and guess what, I’ll stand up with you.

I’m a friend, don’t you know

I make sentences blow

I reduce strength to whimper,

can embellish a temper,

rend hearts to a crimper

make sunsets look limper,

all this with the glide of guess who

Forget all those words

that describe the absurd

Not needed or deeded or grand.

For half of the price I’ll show you not nice

pontificate trice, slam and damn the whole alice

Squeeze the story inside a brown shoe.

Do you see me unbutton

the bone from the mutton?

Banish those fancies, abscond all those prancies,

hose adverbs as dandies

Obliterate adjectives, admonish the tranies:

Allow me to conjugate too.

But this once I except;

take my bow and my step.

I’ll allow one embellished like word

I deserve all this credit

With me there’s no debit

Because I’m absofuckinglutely a VERB!