Say Charley never died.
Chuck doubtless still his tales could tell,
though needing to decide
what names to name their nemeses --
the villains of each piece.
A Scrooge, a Heep, a Sikes: his need
for telling tags ne'er'd cease.
Say Dickens spawns a scoundrel
with rococo Day-Glo hair,
a truth-denying psychopath
with villainies to spare,
whose thatch resembles pasturelands
some jeune fille might marcel:
a faux fox fur of polymer.
He'd dub that dude "Dynel."
In French, to trompe (with silent e)...?
To cheat, to fool, to trick.
A tool who "trompe"'s a mythomaniac,
a fraud, a dick.
Unfaithful to his missus (nu...?),
this faux-republican's
an archetypal Dickens cad:
Dynal J. Trompe's that man.
