Words Of Length Poem by Stanley Cooper

Words of length
That dare me-scare me
When with them I’m bombasted
I feel wordy flabbergasted

*Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
Is more than ample, as an example
Of a word everyone I know would choose
To never conversationally use

Words of length
I must admit, put me in a verbal snit
I think that they ought-er
Be a lot more shorter


*The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (also spelled -koniosis) is defined as 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica (sandlike) dust, mostly found in volcanoes'. It was originally coined simply to serve as the longest English word, but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The name generally used to describe this condition is pneumoconiosis.