Re: En Dehors or On the Outs

Aborigines wander the Outback.*

Comes their bedtime, they’re out like a light.

One’s a cat in a hat.

Catch and put out that cat!

We can chat once that cat’s out of sight.

D. J. Drump takes a dump in our outhouse.

“Are you out,” voters shout, “of your mind…?”

(Will who denigrates him

end up out on a limb…?

Nonsense: Drumpf’s out to lunch, all shrinks find.)

Elephants hang out outdoors.

Did they not, they’d go out of their wits.

Certain frogs, tres outres,

will go out of their way

to tout only an outfit which fits.

Gregarious gnomes seem outgoing.

Often, hermits are outcasts, no doubt.

And ice lollys are fun.

(Can ice pops be outdone…?

I think not: such “improvements” are out.)

Are not jesters at court now outmoded…?

In the US that jury’s still out,

sound decisions outweigh’d

by a South KKK’d.

(White supremacy’s what they’re about.)

Are not lesbians out of the closet…?

Where’d be Lincoln without ‘Honest Abe’…?

Doesn’t Lutwidge cry out,

“When a boojum’s* about,

let the toves and the mome raths outgrabe”…?

     * A dangerous breed of snark made 

famous by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.

Nursing nuns by machines grow outnumber’d,

making outpatients’ outcomes prove poor.

And the outlook looks grim,

since the chances are slim

that nun output improves anymore.

Lord of all: help me crawl out from under.
(Dare I spout this from out of the blue...?)
If you look, Lord, you'll find 
I'm not out of my mind.
(Out of gas, perhaps. That you'll find true.)

Below are just a few of the many 'outs' 

which will occupy future verses:

outpost

outpatient

outperform

outpouring

out-qualify

out run

outrigger

out sick

outsourcing

outtakes

outu

"Out vile jelly!"

out vote

out weigh

out west

out yonder

out zone