Day Forty-four

Today's words:

Noun

Planet

Thief

Cape

Brass

Kidney

A collective noun

Is hard to grasp. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the planet,

A thief

Wearing a cape

And sporting a set of brass

Knuckles punched a store owner in the kidney.

"I don't want your kidney,"

He shouted. "It's another noun

"I'm after. I'm going for the brass

"Ring this time. I've had it with this planet!"

With that, he swirled his cape

And made off, as they say, like a thief

In the night. As opposed to a thief

In broad daylight? Whatever. We're having steak and kidney

Pie for dinner. Superman's cape,

Without Superman, would be just another noun:

Limp and discarded. And on another planet

Everyone's teeth are brass.

But let's get down to brass

Tacks. What thief

Would try to steal the whole planet?

It's not like it's a kidney

Or some other easily-transportable noun

That you can hide under your cape.

I'm going back to Cape

Cod, where they ring a brass

Bell to let everyone know the boats are in. A noun 

Can be safe there. No thief

Is going to get my kidney,

Not on this planet

Or any other planet.

I need a longer cape,

To cover my kidney,

And maybe with a brass

Panel to protect it from the thief

Who sneaks in like a passive-aggressive noun.

On this planet the moon is made of brass.

Wrapped in his cape, the thief

Hardly notices, as he tries to trade a kidney for a proper noun.