Some verbs don't seem appropriate to use
In poetry. I don't mean fuck or damn;
Those have a purpose, if but to abuse.
I mean the sort of verbs I often am
Timid in using: far less standard ones
Like frack for instance. It's a verb twice over,
But like a sticky pack of hotcross buns
Smashed in a backpack all the way from Dover,
It doesn't quite feel right, as if it were
Unfit to use. Polite society
Frowns on such words, and therefore they incur
A penalty; at least they do for me.
It's off the beaten path, and who goes there
Except when rhymes are broken, in despair?
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