The Spoonbill Generator

Pleonastic bunkers that the empire built       [Apsley ]

With their anchors in Calcutta's fusty loam       [Roland ]

Hoarding all the treasure from the tax-collector's rounds       [Beefy ]

In a monumental castle of chrome       [Roland ]

Plagiaristic sonnets from the writers' guild       [Beefy ]

Who embed immodest maxims in each line       [Roland ]

Hiding all their earnings from the tax-collector's gaze       [Beefy ]

In their primitively hollowed-out spine       [Roland ]

Plaintive emanations from the sunken kiln       [Beefy ]

When the honey-trap is powered by the sun       [Roland ]

Heeding not the warning that the tax-collector's near       [Beefy ]

With a scimitar concealed in his gun       [Roland ]

Pleonastic bunkers that the empire built       [(trad) ]

With their anchors in Calcutta's fusty loam       [Grayman ]

Hoarding all the treasure from the tax-collector's rounds       [(trad) ]

In a monumental castle: no home       [Apsley ]