Para/Poem Challenge "Open"

(Or Advice From the Wizard of Oz)

Naught
Usurp
Cackle
Maunder
Hokum
Sanctimoniousness

Sanctimoniousness is wonderful fun
As long as you stay just out of the masses' reach
When you tell them all
What sinners they are.
You don't have to go too far
Only remember, as you make your smuggest speech,
Not to cackle loudly
Or let humor usurp the gravity
Maunder all you like
There's naught to stop you
And a bit of hokum can add just the right
Sparkle
To an act that might otherwise be
Dull.