Mendacity – its etiology is hard to trace,
Is it endemic to one’s druthers, way or choice?
I’ve seen a pica causing titubant affecting gait
In jaundiced people and in milquetoast of men.

Oh dear poets, do not look at me askance,
I’m kind of lummox, lacking nerve in dorsal trunk,
No bandersnatch of pica taste, oh that's too much,
No, I'm a milquetoast, of somewhat jaundiced kind.

No challenge cosmogonic in its scale
Could ever match this one of Jazzy’s make.
And now the titubant that billows in my head
Leaves me no choice but to ignore in flaxen 'flax'
And quench the smoking flax in a vesuvian rage.