Dictionary.com‘s Word of the Day today is rodomontade. Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today is distaff.

Naturally, I had to create a poem out of them. Here it is:

The kid next door and his rodomontade
Of his thriving business of lemonade
Did nothing but irk me, the girl next door,
And so I sold jerky to even the score.

I also sold cookies and cupcakes galore
And various sundries, and even more!
This neighborhood distaff CEO
Gave selling her items a good gung ho

‘Til no one would buy from the kid next door
And I bought him out and then—what’s more—
I drank up all his lemonade
And gave him no reason for rodomontade.

(Burma Shave)

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