Word of the Day for Monday,

May 5, 2008 fustian \FUHS-chuhn\, noun:

1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious language.

3. Made of fustian.

4. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.

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Frayed Parvenu

From the dastardly pompous inflections

upon an ego of frayed parvenu;

Are many a tawdry pretentious man

riding down the regal forces of an avenue.

Up on the splurged high horse of fustian

 where there is no-one left to decide,

a forgotten gimcracks fate awaits a shoddy man

in the corners of his ride.

(Written: May 6^th, 2008 4:38 a/m)

Copyright© 2008 Vickie L. McColley

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