Stuffing

Money stuffs a wallet,

Pizza stuffs a face.

Most downtowns are overstuffed

With hurting human race.

Pillows have their eiderdown

Turkeys breaded sausage.

Bonnie had her Clyde. A frown

Is stuffed with soured tossage.

Alveoli plump with oxy,

Peppers, Spanish rice.

Is this Stuff and Nonsense?

Maybe. Ain’t it nice?

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Questions for the reader:

Do lines 3 and 4 serve the poem, even though their tone is more serious? Why not or why?

Is Line 7 necessarily lascivious? Does a sympathetic yet prudish reader tend to perform mental gymnastics to un-lasciviize it!

Did the reader see the “punchline” final lines coming? Are they off-putting in their self-servitude?

Do these questions themselves become a second poem?

Please feel free to use the Comments section to post your answers.