Compulsion to Rhyme II
By now you’ve read my oeuvre once or twice before.
It’s bulging out of file cases, stacked upon the floor.
It’s quickly filling up my blog and straying to the media.
Soon I fear I must compose my own encyclopedia.
It started out a habit but soon became compulsion.
My housecleaner surveys my poems with undisguised revulsion.
Spiders live within the files, cats use them for their beds,
so they serve grander purposes than cluttering up heads.
Perhaps someone could stop me with a cudgel or a gun,
but lacking that, I fear that when my final poem is done,
my heirs will have to market my oeuvre by the ton.
The prompt today was oeuvre. In case you’ve never encountered the word without its buddies hors and d’, used alone, oeuvre means the works of a painter, composer or author, regarded collectively.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/wednesday-prompt-oeuvre/