Doris, I Was Wonder---

It’s morning, and a spring breeze

Is bringing a cooling trend

That is vying with an ascending barometric reading,

Creating a destabilizing front, possibly altering morning’s fate.

Most readers would look for meaning in the above.

But to those who suffer from a rare, pernicious condition

Known as the “ing” syndrome, such conditions could prove fatal.

There is only one effective treatment available:

There is a form of yoga that a sufferer might find efficacious.

Near a small lake in an undisturbed Kenyan village

Lives a magic frog whose “ribbit”, if repeated 600 times

From the tallest branch of  the wazzit tree could help,

If the sequence is initiated at the time of the “pale full moon.”

In several cases this incantation has lead to a fortnight-long

Cessation of the intense and interminable “ringing-ing-ing”

The “ing” syndrome typically produces in the head of the victim.

Alternately, the poor sufferer can consider giv—up: sing---, talk---,

walk---, argu---, and smil--- simultaneously.  But it never works