Rictameter, Poetic form exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

sour chips
have too much salt
and soak your saliva
while the garlic makes your breath stink
but while eating them we don't think of that
because they tantalize taste buds
and tickle our palate
so let's all eat
sour chips

[Larry]

ships store
a lot of food
for long ocean cruises
because there is no place to stop
and resupply for the rest of the trip
but it would be nice if someone
started a floating shop
for tourists and
ship’s stores

[JustDaniel]

ship doors
never open
directly to the sea
because it would let water in
which would make even well-built boats to sink
way down into the briny deep;
if you're superstitious
you will never
ship doors

[Larry]

chipped doors
are hard to fix
even with good putty
and help from a great carpenter
because every repair is obvious
so remove it and break it up,
for use in your fireplace
as starter wood
door chips

[JustDaniel]

core chips
made from apples
end up looking seedy
simply because of location;
any prospective slice comes from where seeds
are stored in the old fruit's center
so they can propagate
as the apple
core chips

[Larry]

corn chips
are really not
pieces of whole kernels
but are made from a ground-up paste
mixed with spices and some strange additives
which are extruded and deep-fried
making them fattening
and which women’s
hips scorn

[JustDaniel]

chap's torn
between simply
riding the rodeos
or spending time on the ranges
and singing out, yippee yi yo kayay
but he had become saddle sore
and dismounting in the briars
seems to have made
chaps torn

[Larry]

chirps turn
the sea-birds’ head
while walking on the shore
looking for crabs and small creatures
it can use to please a possible mate
but being intrigued by the song
it looks around to find
another bird;
tern chirps

[JustDaniel]

ten champs
in soccer league
want to go play futbol
in the Mexican tournament
but each of them must raise funds for travel
for themselves and a goalkeeper
plus a few substitutes
who can play like
teen champs

[Larry]

sheen tempts
someone to touch
freshly baked enamels
used to coat most automobiles
to make sure the paint has properly dried
but that would be foolish to do
and would cause big blisters
because of the
sheen temps

[JustDaniel]

shin tints
from futbol games
range in many colors
from black and blue to yellowish
as the body runs its course in healing
the unfortunate side effect;
that is quite ironic:
injuries front
shin splints

[Larry]

skin tents
from buffalo
were made by Indians
for their shelter and protection
so squaws cleaned and tanned each buffalo hide
and sewed together large pieces.
bison hate Indians
because it makes
skins tense

[JustDaniel]

skink nets
work very well
for catching the lizards
but you can also use your hands
or lure them out with light onto glue traps;
either way, you need to prepare
a short term place to live
from which you'll have
sent skinks

[Larry]

SYSTEMS OR KNOWLEDGE

scents kink
your nose and brain
seducing you to do
things you would never do, somehow
enticing you to believe something’s real,
making you think everything’s fine
so mistakes which you find
often will bring
rank sense

[JustDaniel]

I'm always greatly impressed with your double acrostics! Amazing!

rank scents
by how they smell
or what are their affects
on their consumers and their friends;
sometimes they are simply overwhelming
like when you're cleaning up vomit
or when changing a diaper...
those familiar
rank scents

[Larry]

crank sense
into Wall Street
if you are investing
for the long haul and not short term
and you may, one day, realize profits
but the giant mutual funds
control most stocks and bonds;
sell covered call options
and you won't see
cents shrank

This is actually a tried and true lucrative investment strategy used to enhance annualized rates of return on optionable stock portfolios.

[JustDaniel]

bent shank
caused accident
when the rear end collapsed
and a truck followed too closely;
hitting car, it jackknifed, blocking the road
and five more vehicles became
part of the accident...
all this from one
bent shank!

[Larry]

bunt shrank
chance of winning
at the end of the game
when it was the batter’s third strike
with two outs and the bases were loaded
all that was needed was a hit
which would have scored two runs
but he struck out;
shanked bunt

[JustDaniel]

bank sunk
a large fortune
to expand its business
with both unsecured and home loans
more than tripling its former mortgages
and adding two local branch banks;
when the economy
collapsed the poor
bank sunk

[Larry]

bank sunk
but was bailed out
with their client’s money
which came as a government loan
borrowed from the tax-paying investors
at a very low interest rate
but their depositors
got screwed after
bank’s hunk