Penultimate Subversion Poem by Douglas Scotney

A gardener on limy land
avoids planting calcifuges;
a patient diagnosed with worms
is administered vermifuges;
'many touch-downs' in football
is also 'many rouges';
huge rain events
are usually deluges;
'rapidly rotating separating machines'
is a definition of 'centrifuges';
islands in the street
are pedestrian refuges;
misers are scrooges;
butts of jokes are stooges;
a recalcitrant television presenter,
though knowing it doesn't,
rhymes 'Bruges' with 'subterfuges'.