The Spoonbill Generator

Z's Bequest (The Gamut)

'A' was an Arctic Abacus [Roland]

'B' was a bloated blunderbuss [P]

But 'C' was no cast-iron cactus [Roland]

'D' was deadly dynamite [P]

'E' was an evil eremite [Roland]

'F' was a flickering fairy-light [P]

'G' was a Geisha, grunting [Roland]

'H' was a Hun, a-hunting [p]

But I was no Baby Bunting [Roland]

'J' is my jeering majority [Kimber]

'K' is for Kant or can, [Stacy]

'L' is my leering sorority [Roland]

'M' was a clapped-out motorbus, [The Agent Apsley]

'N' was no trip to Erebus [TG]

O! Now I can't locate my opus [Kimber]

Pia Zadora, oh, my! [Stacy]

Queue for your quinces, or die [Loaf]

You 'R' the one who likes pie. [Stacy]

'S' was a seething stack of spite [Roland]

'T'a mighty troglidite, [Stacy]

'U' was an Universal blight [Roland]

'V' was a vulgar plebeian [TG]

'W' wept outside Wien [Roland]

For 'X' , an extreme Xanthippean [TG]

Y was a stupid question [P]

ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! [Stacy]

The rest is but congestion! [The Agent Apsley]


Contributors: Roland, P, p, Kimber, Stacy, The Agent Apsley, TG, Loaf.
Poem finished: 16th March 1998.