Ounces

"Death by a thousand cuts" (or cuts by a thousand knives) refers to a scenario where a major failure, collapse, or immense pain is caused by many small, seemingly minor, and gradual problems rather than one single, sudden event. It describes a process of slow, incremental destruction or weakening.

I reckon eyes writhing torment
of mine when just a youth
ground until pulp thru the rumor mill,
which turned out bloody broadsheets
announcing yours truly as a scapegoat
pluperfect - tense past perfect
target for bullies

Where shall I go to find a place,

after writing what I (considered a modest married man)

I speak

appears out of the blue 
just like interspersed prevarications
issuing warnings to readers 
hinting at approach of poetic storm
and true to form
yours truly id est - me doth not conform. 

Though the sky

Bean and tea sip were infatuated with key word shrouds that had this helter skelter of gargantuan scope entanglement  with their seemingly simple whet for the simple things and what ensued.

(and muttered praise to the Norse gods),
when long awaited replacement
Amazon Alexa Echo...
cho... ho... o got dropped of without

(by golly jeepers) being stolen,

despite the fact that April, May
and the first twenty days
of June got skipped
as if space/time continuum
shrunk to the size of
(would you believe)
first mosquito of the season,
(yet don't be fooled,
cause the female Culicidae
known to suck up blood
faster than a black hole sun
could become
a ho... ho... ho... jolly red giant)
alit upon forearm of mine,
but turning up her snub nose
in preference to being
the frito bandito song
"Ay, ay, ay, ay, /
Oh, I am deFrito Bandito. /
I like Fritos corn chips, /