No Canoodle   Cachinnate: To express amusement, mirth, or scorn by emitting loud, inarticulate sounds: cackle, guffaw, laugh. Bollocks! O Callooh! O Callay! Cats! Criminy! Fiddledeedee! Heehaw! Jeez! Pshaw! Yuk-yuk! Zounds! Caducous: Shedding at an early stage of development. The first sign of senility is the loss of humorlessness. Caffeinism: A toxic condition marked by elevated blood pressure, rapid breathing, heart palpitations, and insomnia, caused by excessive ingestion of coffee and other caffeine Let’s go now, right now, not later, not next time, not next month, I mean what’cha waiting for, another dance, another chance? Camus, Albert: French writer whose works concern the absurdity of the human condition. “A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” Chinook: 1. A Native American people relocated to western Washington.  2. An unseasonably warm wind. 3. A jargon of Native American and European words used for trade. 1. The first sign of entropy, as in the diaspora of a critical mass. 2. A certain uneasiness, a dread. 3. A prototypical motorhome or military transport helicopter. Colonel Blimp: A pompous, reactionary, ultranationalistic person. After a cartoon character created by Sir David Low (1891–1963). “Gad, Lord Beaverton is right. This League of Nations is a big sham. Why, it’s nearly all foreigners.” Conation: The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving. A principal characteristic of the human race is its unbridled craving for saturated fat. Contumacy:  Obstinate or contemptuous resistance to authority; stubborn rebelliousness. A principal characteristic of the human race is its reflexive refusal to sit down. Couvade: A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child. A principal characteristic of the human race is its unimpeded instinct to run back into the burning village.   2004 Winner, Baltimore Review Poetry Contest