Unique

Some people say fairly unique

or quite unique or even very unique,

but unique must not be made meek

with modifiers, it must be hard as teak;

no self-respecting Greek

would dare to a Roman speak

with unicus weakened by a reek-

ing Latin qualifier; mise en pratique

or not, he'd like as punch him in the beak

for speaking Latin like a freak;

yet up-the-creek English speakers wreak

havoc on unique and make it leak

by sneaking in weasel words that shriek

of their willingness to make oblique

unique’s upright mystique,

forcing unique to eke

out its days on a desert plain and not on a mountain peak.