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Comic-cons and cosplays are a fad that makes me frown.

Because, you see, for quite some time I've been a circus clown.

Funny caps and crazy gear I trotted out for chortles;

I never thought myself to be those comic book immortals.

Now when I get dressed in large red shoes and baggy trousers,

people want to know where they can play me on their browsers!

There's nothing that a banker

likes better than to raise

their int'rest rate to levels

that worry and amaze.

The only math they practice

is multiply and add;

leaving all us gudgeons

to wander barrel-clad.

My wife and I grow older

and our manifest concern

is independent living

as our frailties we spurn.

We enter second childhood

and ride off on Harley hog --

fleeing further fading

by backpacking all through Prague.

Mr. Putin likes to bully

with his threats both wild and woolly.

Eaten up with grim insanity,

he defends his urgent vanity

by suggesting atom bomb

will resolve his Vietnam.

my networking is rather rough;

I never know what kind of stuff

to post for influential chums

that won't mark me as from the slums.

are fart jokes any good at all?

or how to rob a shopping mall?

I might suggest my kidney stone

requires a small privy loan . . .

I'd rather shop at Tiffany's

than any groc'ry store.

The prices are more moderate

and do not make me sore.

Eggs and meat and cheeses

are extravagantly marked;

the more I look upon them

the more chance I will infarct!

The Great Salt Lake is shrinking;

a puddle it will be.

A parking lot we'll make it

(that ain't hyperbole!)

The West is getting hotter

than you-know-where, muchachos --

twill only be a fit place