Though I wanted this to end with the registration #, and metrical consideration led me to “dyslexia,” others apparently did not find this as clever as I. So I have fashioned a compromise. Michael’s “CVX / twenty-three seven” won’t work in L5-6 of the stanza for reasons of syntax and form, but I have adapted it elsewhere in the stanza, and added a fourth for good(?) measure:
Glorious escapade!
David G. Anthony
has a new car will make
anyone swoon.
Fancy him driving his
septuagenarian
thirty-six Austin, a
ruby saloon!
Red leather seats and a
beige felt interior,
gleaming red finish from
bonnet to boot--
what a fine playground for
autoerotica!
(Would he indulge such a
wanton pursuit?)
We have misgivings that
driving that CVX
three twenty-seven might
lead him astray,
turning him into an
unrecognizable
swell, and our affable
David betray.
Please, friend, beware of such
parlous temptation, and
fend off the devil of
unwonted pride.
We like you best when you’re
uncompromisingly
humble--and hope that you’ll
give us a ride.
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