Camouflaged as duplicitous male counterpart... - part ii

Camouflaged as duplicitous male counterpart... - part ii

A Poem by matthew scott harris
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second part of how fickle people can be about yearning for winter during triple digit degrees fahrenheit during the brutally hazy, hot and humid dog days of summer, and just the reverse during summer,

"

Tired of feeling sleepy today -
and dawg days of summer yet to arrive
initially written August 17th, 2019
updated today April 29th, 2026.

Lashed with fatigue,
eye cannot fend off lethargy
hazy, hot, humid weather zaps
mental physical, and spiritual energy
no doubting Thomas, nor even men of cloth
various and sundry clergy.

Undoubtedly summoning Parson Brown
currently out of season,
though stratospheric demand
for his person now
unprecedented as summer
dog days force physical slowdown,
nonetheless he would
experience immediate meltdown
booked solid throughout
"Winter Wonderland,"
when deep freeze
doth make clampdown,
no matter sung by masses
with uncertain reason
caroling 'bout said enigmatic figure
heard in every hamlet
or sprawling boomtown
belted clear as bell
o'er nor'easter howl
undeterred by polar vortex windblown
chilling atlas shrugged
off undaunted facedown
weathering arctic blast
making snow angels
comfortably numb jollity reverses frown
even elderly folks
sport about though grown
spry stick figures shoveling tunnel
courtesy white blanketed lockdown
"careful ma am" not
to fall on keister or crown.

Presence of said parson
linkedin with spate
of blizzard conditions and
Frosty the Snowman,
whose power to bring society
to standstill will not abate
proof positive to commander
in chief who cannot extricate
weather from climate, and trumpets
what he doth cogitate
dismissing global warming -
calling out "end of debate"
twill usher doomsday, cuz he
and trolling henchmen skate
on thin ice, and whose
dawdling crass, base
actions only accelerate
day of wreck conning
when most species will
lack mien ways to acclimate
all the more rhyming reason
to bid mortality adieu
and slumber permanently
battened down hatches
with me sigh hmm...
ease oompa loompa mate.

These tired occipital "Occipital orbs" -
not a standard medical term,
but combination of two anatomical terms,
likely referring to the visual center
at the back of the head (occipital lobe)
and the eyes (orbs) that feed it information.

Additionally, these sedentary lovely bones
suddenly feel weary
as well the measly
atrophied trouser snake
and accompanying cojones
while Mister Chatterbox
in my cramped maxed out headroom
buzzfeeds and drones
sometimes imitating sounds
in my ears like ringing fones
competing with hungry tummy that groans
analogous to sounds in the cemetery
linkedin to headstones
and when the grim reaper calls me,
I will bring a copy of some literature
to exercise and exorcise viz jawbones
placing keystones like koans as signpost.

Tired of feeling sleepy today - August 17th, 2019
(the original date I wrote this mash-up
Lashed with fatigue,
eye cannot fend off lethargy
hazy, hot, humid weather zaps
mental physical, and spiritual energy
even men of cloth
various and sundry clergy.

Undoubtedly summoning Parson Brown
currently out of season,
though stratospheric demand
for his person now
unprecedented as summer
dog days force physical slowdown,
nonetheless he would
experience immediate meltdown
booked solid throughout
"Winter Wonderland,"
when deep freeze
doth make clampdown,
no matter sung by masses
with uncertain reason
caroling 'bout said enigmatic figure
heard in every hamlet
or sprawling boomtown
belted clear as bell
o'er nor'easter howl
undeterred by polar vortex windblown
chilling atlas shrugged
off undaunted facedown
weathering arctic blast
making snow angels
comfortably numb jollity reverses frown
even elderly folks
sport about though grown
spry stick figures shoveling tunnel
courtesy white blanketed lockdown
"careful ma am" not
to fall on keister or crown.

Presence of said parson
linkedin with spate
of blizzard conditions and
Frosty the Snowman,
whose power to bring society
to standstill will not abate
proof positive to commander
in chief who cannot extricate
weather from climate, and trumpets
what he doth cogitate
dismissing global warming -
calling out "end of debate"
twill usher doomsday, cuz he
and trolling henchmen skate
on thin ice, and whose
dawdling crass, base
actions only accelerate
day of wreck conning
when most species will
lack mien ways to acclimate
all the more rhyming reason
to bid mortality adieu
and slumber permanently
battened down hatches
with me sigh hmm...
ease oompa loompa mate.

© 2026 matthew scott harris


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