(a Scathing Character Study) The Puff Adder Poem by moon batchelder

he was both egocentric and bombastic in his written stories
a shameless fabricator to whom truth was strange and lost
as headstrong as a mule and periphrastic speaking of his glories
his journeyman achievements all were added to and much embossed

infrequent sales no less gave rise unto a bloated sense of pride
while frequent broodiness his sense of joy at all of this belied

he wasn't much displeased with sparse attendance at book signings
tho rare aficionados sometimes come to beg an autograph
he spoke in generality of projects he was now designing
trademark chartreuse quill in hand was too absurd to make us laugh.