My Amanuensis

tell metaphors not to compare,
dear personification, stop
giving life to oxymoron,
euphemism, stop being nice.
stop finding smiles in similes,
enough of that repetition
we are not deaf, anaphora.
talking to me? Talk to me, stop
cutting corners, dear allusion,
we know already, hyperbole,
enough of boring paradox.
hang that tautology, please; Thanks.

my amanuensis chooses
to converse and boom! doom! – my end

Tomide Abdul