Could I have a word - by Esther Murer

all to myself?

Please, just this once?

I have only to say

Zeugosquamosity

and the whole world

is using it on talk shows,

Chthonochiasmus

pops up on every web page,

Repinguidificationist

twitters around the globe,

and I rue the day I ever said

Brzobrzowskiemostrzynsk.

Now repeat after me:

Yafflescutch

is OFF LIMITS.

Write it 500 times:

Yafflescutch

is COPYRIGHT.

let the web banners proclaim:

Yafflescutch

is MY PRIVATE WORD

and is not to be twittered, skyped or googled

on pain– yes, ON PAIN OF

YAFFLESCUTCH.

Posted 3 months ago