circumlocution

Around and around,
up and then down
the words flow;
a stream of teaming tourists
get on the rollercoaster.
They take their turn
to speed and scream
before a hurky-jerky stop
to tumble off and
let the new alight.
And always,
the cavalcade queuing,
stretched into the distance.
A column of bored enthusiasts
impatient for their time
off the line
jostle and jitter.
So his words spew forth,
in the circumlocution
of barroom blather,
a rush of vehement intensity
never going anywhere;
a conversational ouroboros
of florid vocabulary
riding hurly-burly and
trapped in
the theme park
that is him.
And she,
a reluctant safety inspector
watches in morbid facination
for the inevitable derailment.