Verbose vexation via vaudeville

Just a little alliteration.

Belligerently burgeoning blow-back buccaneers brandishing blazing bayonets,

backed by billions in black bullion,

banking magnificent misfit monarchs,

monologing mysterious megalomaniacal mysticism - misleading!

Making money per popular poor plebeian purchase.

Poignantly privileged privateers pillaging peons!

Politically paralyzed pacifists, painted as terrorists

taking tactical tributes that tarnish their thesis -

Troublemakers! Troubadours toting tic-tac tubas and telecoms,

where Wifey’s wacky Wednesday waxes while world’s woes wane, worshiping

Wendy’s and Walt Disney while waiting for florid family functions of feasting.

Author's Note

More angst-ridden than I usually care to be, but it was a lot of fun to write.

Reviews

[TLK]

I wonder why you switch from b->m->p->t->w->f. I think it would be rather effective if you spelled out a word with this alliteration, like a much more intensive acrostic (aside: is an acrostic even poetry?).

Words that seem like "yo, I am alliterating" rather than actual useful words: 'blow-back', 'tactical', 'tic-tac', 'florid'. These are all being used as adjectives, and as a short story writer I hate adjectives... so it might just be my reaction.

Best line: "backed by billions in black bullion". The internal half-rhyme is very enjoyable.

[John Lauterbach]

When I wrote this, I started out thinking; "Holy crap, all these B words sound amazing together!" and took off from that. It all came out of that flow in the beginning, without a plan aside from the subject.

I'm not really into the poetry community or injecting extra stuff into my work, but I really like that idea about making this (sort of) acrostic. I'd have to be bored as hell to buckle down and work on it, but I think it would blow people away.

[Craig2591]

A lot of fun to write, and a lot of fun to read. I enjoyed it.

[Sami Khalil]

A good one sir ...:)

[John Lauterbach]

Thanks!

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure...:)

[Rita L. Sev]

This was quite a feat! The angst is sort of buried under the playfulness of the alliteration - which was amazing! I especially like: "while world’s woes wane, worshiping Wendy’s and Walt Disney while waiting for florid family functions of feasting." This was clearly a fun challenge!

[John Lauterbach]

Thanks, that W part was the hardest out of the whole thing. I'm glad it's standing strong.

[Tegon Maus]

John.. you show off... clever but not for me.