Tortured Words

Sometimes I like to torture words

with obscene acts to nouns and verbs.

I tie them up in sentences

and whip them till they make no sense.

I love the screams of prepositions

while pulling them in odd positions;

and conjunctions make a lovely din

when decapitated by my pen.

I bind the wrists of adjectives

just for the pleasure that it gives

and adverbs leave me hot and bothered

once their meaning is uncovered.

Interjections beg for release

with pronouns trembling on their knees.

And once my fiendish work is done,

you'll find that I have just begun

my scheme to try and make you see

it's not perverse - it's poetry.