The Silent P Poem by Douglas Scotney

You could do worse for your kicks
than turn to the pt- page of The Chambers Dict.:

Pesetas are Ptas, as shortening pleases;
So what about ptos for potatos?

Ptravelling on,
ptarmic comes from the Greek for sneezes;

Some snob put a p on tarmigan
to give it to the Greeks not the Gaels:

One wonders about petite;

A Greek taking over the Italian restaurant
... La Trattoria...
might call it... La pTrattoria...
and economise on signs;

Of maniacs, there are pterido-,
but no pTas-;

Quite a few come from pteris, a fern
and pteron, a wing or feather;

one's from ptilon, feathery down;

a ptochos is a beggar,
and if there was a pteropodopolis,
one of them in that
would be a beggar in a wing-footed town.