Sunday, December 7, 2008

Port Richmond Block Party


Maculate - adj - stained or spotted
Malaprop - N - The nonsensical misuse of a word.
Malapert - adj - unbecomingly bold or saucy.
Dulcet - adj - Pleasant to the ear.
Dunderhead - N - A dunce.
Hootenanny - N - A community's social gathering.
Nexus - N - A means of connection.
Plebian - adj - Of the common people.
Raconteur - N - A person skilled in speech.
Stultify - V - Making to appear foolish or ineffectual.



Port Richmond Block Party

Bibs and shirts lay maticulated with Italian meat sauce
Spaghetti entwined thickly across the plate.
The Polacks hold a hootenanny across the street.
The dulcet sounds of the polka seeps through the asphalt slate.
The old Irish raconteurs tell of VE day with glee.
Talk of bouncing dunderhead Germans
Abounds with every "last" glass of whisky
Crass malapert accents fill the air.
Their words begin to slur and fill with malaprop
This neighborhood nexus has seen no shift
The plebians haven't lost their style.
The blue bloods and suburb kids
See our drunken songs and lazy fights
The acts stultify our lot in life.
It's VE day all over again
Bath Streets gonna howl all night.

1 comment:

APLITghosts said...

Nice imagery. I am right there. Have some more fun with the food and chatter. Tap in a bit more to the overwhelmingness of it all. Use more concrete tangibles. - elmeer