A fear and a hatred A compulsion not a whim A revulsion never sated The dreaded acronym Travelling under guises Initialisms, abbreviations Of text, it quantises Deadly prosaic deviations Letters raised on high Language’s lazy trick I shriek and call out “why!” Feeling physically sick Jargon’s Trojan horse Lurking in parenthesis Then applied with force It is my nemesis Ruining the skyline Meaning then forgot Deemed to be benign But actual mental rot
The Acronym
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