This is an experiment of sorts, playing with words to give them unexpected suffixes or conjugations. This was something I used to do with a friend about 25 years ago. Most of what we came up with has faded into memory; the only example I remember is mobular, which could be used, say, to describe a baby who has learned to crawl, and now is crawling all over the place—e.g., She’s become mobular. I see that particular ‘word’ as a combination of mobile and ambulatory. (Another example might be the prisoner played by Damon Wayans on In Living Color.) Anyway, I thought I would carry things further by trying to write a poem in that style. It was harder than I thought it would be—but here it is:

Electatorium 2016

The maddish rhetorication draws ire
from the resistifarian rank and file
who scream for the heads of the presidentia
above the objectications
of the professionista corps

The brutalitide of conflictated internalation
riptears the fabricated exploits
of the moneyhunny classmalions
a singularification of percentified occupality

While ballatory boxing continuates
all the candidation infuritates the votaries
Africates and Caucasials alike
facing repressatory alienography from the homelot

upon which the structutary constituation
is rapidately fracturizing—
electile dysfunctionarianism
Americanated stylitude

(19 April 2016—posted April 20th)