or spelled out,
the acronym short cut
for continuous positive airway pressure.
When unmasked
to counteract sleep apnea,
the missus\' countenance
resembles an elephant,
what with face covering
and trunk like tube connecting
to a wall outlet,
significantly affected
when a power outage strikes.
As I lay me down to sleep,
by which time,
the spouse already
got a jump/kick
start into shut-eye dreamland
indicated by fluttering of closed lids,
yours truly experiences a respite
from her playful antics
such as paddling my tush
gently slapping
both sets of cheeks
plus various and sundry
other horseplay
associated with a toddler,
yet every now and again
I snap (or bark in her parlance)
cuz impossible mission
to experience quality
and necessary rem cycles,
when she doth play
knick knack paddy whack...
buzzfeeding using
her handy dandy blue\'s clues
stubby fingers
(ill suited to being pianist -
though drumming
on me body electric
not out the question),
hence slab of adipose tissue
around the ab
doubles up as
a mock up tarmac
housing puddled reservoir from
last night\'s rain
pretending to play
duck and cover
atop former six pack
gone to the dogs
once trim body of mine
appropriated as fallout shelter
at my expense
egged on and/or oblivious
whereat no amount of honking
pleases Mother Goose,
who countless years ago
did buzzfeed videlicet
tossed out food
courtesy patrons of
Horn and Hardart
where yours truly
took his repast
with professor Victoria PHD
long since relegated
to the dustbin of history
but once, a famous
American restaurant company
started in Philadelphia in 1888
by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart,
who unwittingly
revolutionized fast food
by opening the first
United States Automat
in 1902 at 818 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
where customers used inxs of coins
to open small glass windows
to buy hot meals,
baked goods, and iconic coffee,
where with unruffled feathers silenced
cause Canadian Geese no longer
flock like Seagulls nor merrily quack
(instinctually returning to a
once upon a time urbanized wetland
paved over with supposed
all in the name of progress)
and after making our selection
of Stews and Gumbo:
Leg and thigh meat
braised into rich comfort foods
like duck, sausage,
and shrimp gumbo
or Persian fesenjan,
after inserting
designated legal tender,
we unexpectedly got a nickleback
interestingly enough a band
by the same name got played
after we pushed button,
and made our purchase
where the two of us
took a seek in a secluded nook
and yours truly applied
his suave opportunistic knack
while simultaneously
making a fool of himself
what with lame jokes,
(but did you hear the one about...),
a kindergartner would not use
as a ploy or figurative
ice-breaking hack
verbal flirting quite out of vogue
where artificial intelligence
allows, enables and provides
ability to exchange pearls of wisdom
generated courtesy electronic robot coach
sophisticated twenty first century machines
nevertheless faintly traceable
to enigmatic brain children
birthed by the
then revolutionary ENIAC
stands for Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer
first programmable, electronic,
general-purpose digital computer,
completed in 1945
and publicly announced
in February 1946.