hyperbole owns all

America’s the biggest fan of hyperbole
Because there’s no greater figure of speech
or greater poetic device for today’s poetry,
that mirrors the rhetoric of those that preach.[…]

Hyperbole Owns All.
(The Greatest Sonnet Ever!) 

America’s the biggest fan of hyperbole
Because there’s no greater figure of speech
or greater poetic device for today’s poetry,
that mirrors the rhetoric of those that preach.

Hyperbole can solve all the world’s woes
better than any sort of euphemisms,
Hyperbole will rock you from your head to your toes,
by being that ism to end all isms.

So listen up and listen well,
Hyperbole can and will save us all from destruction
With the gilded promise of a solid sell
Hyperbole can and will obliterate any form of obstruction. 

Until you stop, and you think, and you look it up in the dictionary,
and there you discovery that hyperbole is really quite silly.  


M. L. Michael 
[9-15-08 –– 10-30-08]

 
 






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