Saddled with onus of penury no more

Good n plenti riches abound

unreachable to gentle

hermit while aboveground,

human ship of state

fore'er stranded aground

only thru death do him part will

his grievous soul get spirited airbound

chokehold sensation ceased when freedom

against debtor's prison unshackled

humongous human corporeal being all around

to little monetary largesse

arrived too late to astound

pipe dream eternally left within background

jackass kippered, milquetoast pockmarked,

Goliath scarred, voodoo battleground

visible near completely bloody lovely bones

partly denuded flesh

buried shallow belowground

scouting, scenting, scrabbling

one after another bloodhound

clamors leaps and doth bound

nosing, trumpeting, yelping...

despite snout muzzled reinforced brassbound,

no deterrent grisly bared, limp, lifeless body

sacrificed at skull and bones campground,

despite decay tell tale

hunch unearthed mound

picked over remains evince sound

bloated girth deceased,
not surprisingly packed orotund
size appetite conveniently weighted
gravity helped fell
giant gourmand chowhound

demise linkedin automatically tightened
neckerchief doubled as noose clothbound

neck, the luckless bard dead -

poets society he didst cofound

oh captain my captain compound

suffering no more, departure doth not confound

those familiar with ravages of pennilessness

although glum spouse doggone bewailing

analogous to melancholy coonhound

inescapable woebegone travails decompound

constituted complex challenges

doom also depressed petsmart deerhound

four footed friend invisibly yoked, where

writings witnessed scrivener

daily voluntarily deskbound

unsuccessful chicken scratch disbound

dispersed newpages feted

German, Oriental and American cockroaches

courtesy proffered grubhub,

wet precipitation courted mildew,

and mold beheld fancy feast dumbfound

ding maggoty parasites riddled

treasure trove discovered earthbound

corpse hungry flocking carrion

heralded all points of compass - eastbound

most popular, hence route crow did house,

cutthroat beasty boys

aided, devoured, gorged...,

among which canine corps elkhound

leader of pack tacking course enwound

roundabout path barking commands

ruff lee didst expound

slinked sly as foxes -

shushed kindred brothers

up ahead wolf gang,

thence took faux minute paws

aware fresh meat fairground

survival of fittest edict woof lee decreed,

when sudden thick terrain fogbound

not impossible mission, though

totally opaque foreground

keen sense of smell and hearing aid found

dead reckoning, i.e. ground zero.