Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:26:06 -0700 (PDT)
Title: Last call

Tenebrous, gloomy verbiage disembogues
from the dreary drunk at the end of the bar;
he spews depressing, endless sprays of runon sentences,
without end, without tenuis or pause, nonstop,
ranting on, slurring, frenzied raving, beak nonsense!

"Last call
for alcohol,
ladies and gents," Jake announces loud and clear,
within a few inches of the inebriate's ear.

A brief hush, then quietly,
as a sickly smile quivers about his lips,
the pathos ridden, nearly insensate biker replies,
"Onefer th'road ta doom, okJake? Jush onemoreBarKeep,
Fer th' endlessh road ta th next roadkill trag-gedy,
drinkta th' dark dangersh lurkin' 'round th nexsht turn
inna freeway an we'll raish a mug ta alla losht riders an
'fer me an all my frensh here'n good ole Bikershh..."

*ten.e.brous aj [ME, fr. MF tenebreus, fr. L tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae: 15th c]
1: shut off from the light: DARK, MURKY, 2: hard to understand: OBSCURE,
3: causing gloom.

*dis.em.bogue v.t. [imp. & p. p. disembogued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.disemboguing.]
[Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en
(L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. debouch,  embogue.]
1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge
into an ocean, a lake, etc.
2. To eject; to cast forth. [R.] Swift.
*dis.em.bogue v.i. To become discharged; to flow put; to find vent; to pour out
contents.

*ten.u.is n [ML, fr. L, thin, slight : 1650] : an unaspirated voiceless stop.
 Bare, smooth, applied by Aristotle to the consonants.  PHONETICS term.
In Greek, a voiceless stop (p, t, or k).

later,
d.

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                Drink today and drown all sorrow;
                You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
                                -John Fletcher 
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