top of page

Gleet

  • amolosh
  • Aug 6, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 12, 2024

Mid-14c., “slime, greasy filth,” from Old French glete “clay, loam; slime, mud, filth” (12c., Modern French glette), from Latin glitem (nominative glis) “sticky, glutinous ground,” back-formation from glittus “sticky.”— https://www.etymonline.com/word/gleet


Fowl have a multipurpose orifice

that’s called “the vent”

with which they copulate, void, lay eggs,

and do whatever else the question begs.


Crazed demagogues are similarly trumped

(it's euphemized by neuropathy as "brain");

one might observe, the outcome is the same.

Chicken farmers, dreading what's called "gleet,"

say: “It ain't pretty—and it don’t smell sweet.”

Political scientists employ no other matching name,


noting the weird pursing of the avid mouth

when sticking it to voters without shame.

Much like the orifice that's chicken south!

 
 
 

Comments

Rated 0 out of 5 stars.
No ratings yet

Add a rating

Join our mailing list

Thanks for subscribing!

Photo by Peter Dreyer

 Cyclops by Christos Saccopoulos, used by kind permission of the sculptor.

Copyright © 2023 - by Peter Dreyer

bottom of page