An oxpecker
Tick wrecker
And the ox ?
An aid expecter .

Beak calls come with a cost,
To live longer : blood is lost .

*[ WSB ]_.

Various though not necessarily nefarious prokaryotes, like boats that float and coat along marshes next to streams, marching into crags and seams ; not snagging briny swishings, but a binary fission towards a mission of survival, biofilm the realm : their walls protected from slicing by peptidoglycan, and covered in slime to protect from the clime, a transformation from planktonic into architectonic fortresses . Quadrupling quantities quicken quantum quorum : e pluribus unum ; ex uno plures .

All pacific, until a squall horrifics the moorings, then the walls tumble into the pouring . The lashes unleash the ships that from anchors slip into the rancor of raging swells . The flotilla have their flagella—and now, their dispersal . The sails vanish like shark fins splitting the finish of the world .

He’s in his box .
He’s in his box .

He’s in his safe place—
His Goldilocks .

Where he can have his little kitty dreams,
Then chew some cardboard from the seams .

— A kingdom territorial
With boundaries perioral

*[ WSB ]_.

The sheeple
Meet at the steeple,
The bleating so gleeful
For the lamb bleeding .The horror
Spews from the fuehrer,
Nutrients for snorers
Never cocksurer.

Brown-shirted
Jerks fresh from the kirk
Circus the streets berserk :
A term for the worst.

*[ WSB ]_.

In honor
Of the divine,
The poetic line

Finds harbor
By sum device
Of aesthetic twine

That hogties
Nous with design :
Sounds atavic time .

Din hovers,
Fills the divide,
Rounds pathetic rhyme .

*[ WSB ]_.