Genre Exercise

Comedy

  No banana peel, no fat man falling or rolling or spinning
  Just the Fat Man walking happily along, grinning
  Thinking about breakfast, bacon, eggs, waffles, and grits
  What is so funny about this Fat Man? Is his weight the schtick?
  What is this awful jokes ending?
6  Goddamn it! We missed him slipping on dog shit

Drama

  The Fat Man loses his job, his home, and is now all alone
  No help, bad health, no hope wanted to be known
  He drowns his woes and hurls into ruination
  Fortune's cessation
  The Gourmand is rescued from his abyss by what glory is prone
12 And when happiness shown his diseases ate him

Thriller

  Lurking, a lurker. The Fat Man's eyes menacing
  The shadows mourn his presence's eerie grimacing
  The Glutton walks his slow walk every step with harm's intent
  It's the look in his eyes and how mine are cinched
  There is a lurker, a stalker who knows all my dealings
18 He's always following, privacy and security never quenched

Adventure 

  Tethered to change, a new life the Fat Man seeks
  He's tired of the familiar names on familiar streets
  The wide-eyed Gorger; his Dodge, dog, duffle, and bindle
  Trekking dauntlessly the terrain, and its climates from sweat to kindle
  Only crisis of the mind and its philosophy and how they eat
24 A memory indulged for a lifetime. Embellished, swindled

Mystery

  Murders are always most rued
  Unless something is abusive to reason and rationality can't be subdued
  Who is to blame for this obscene tuition?
  Why is this the culprit's gnarled erudition?
  Permanently I must chase who destroyed the reality I knew
30 I'll start with the Fat Man, get his rendition

Romance

  She was just a thought once, a taunt
  The Fat Man never could relieve himself of her flaunts
  Those quick glances, married to her pulling smile's niche
  Reeling he was, gladdened by each glance, bewitched
  She loved the Lard like he did her, it was her need, want
36 Together they were all they ever wished

Life

  The Fat Man had laughed and been laughed at
  He dove into the depths of obscurity, known only by his masks
  Insanity told the Gargantuan to force his past
  He gave up then understood that pain wasn't fact
  Suspicion grows about his connection to death's asked
42 Death and love is life's tact

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