Flox-suh
Nawh-suh
Nah
Hil
Uh
Pil
Uh
Fih
Kay
Shuhn
Oh, is such
A fun word to say,
Such a long-winded pronunciation
Just to describe something as worthless
Like owning a boat
In a desert habitation
Isn’t it amazing?
This dodeca-syllabic tongue-twisting abomination
Flaunted by the intellectualization
Of some snooty sesquipedalian
And their high brow pontification,
Or only spoken
By some lonely poet
Who Loves
To compose
Simply,
For the pure Joy
Of articulation
When he stumbles across a word
Such as this revelation
That tickles the fancy
As such does
Floccinaucinihilipilification…
2021, barefoot poet
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