Tsk Tsk

Homicide and genocide

Need punishments to be applied

And fratricide and suicide

Are awful – that can’t be denied.

 

But something else I can’t abide,

Although, in this case, no one died,

Cannot be what we take in stride –

A crime that’s known as verbicide.

 

Unlike insect- or herbicide,

Its perpetrators tend to hide

And, if confronted, they’d be snide;

Corrections down their backs would slide.

 

Some criminals are hanged or fried

But as for writers, here’s a guide –

To those engaged in verbicide,

May lots of tsking be supplied.