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NOMINATIVE DETERMINISM--A FOUND POEM*  
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Ellaraine Lockie
August 21, 2020
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_ Nominative determinism, explains poet Ellaraine Lockie about a
certain president, is the hypothesis that people gravitate towards
areas of work that fit their name. _

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Nominative Determinism--A found poem*

By Elleraine Lockie

1. trump as verb: beat, break, checkmate, concoct, cook up, conceive,
create,  crush, contrive, defeat, devise, distort, dominate, drub,
excel, edge, fabricate, frame, fake, get the better of, get the upper
hand, hatch, invent, make up, nose out, outfox, outdo, outmaneuver,
overtake, outperform, outstrip, outwit, overcome, overpower, prevail,
profit, scheme, surpass, top, trounce, vanquish, wallop, win

2. trumpery as noun: babble, balderdash, bits and pieces, blah,
blather, bullshit,  bunk, bunkum, castaways, castoffs, chaff,
claptrap, cultch, debris, detritus, discards, dominance, dreck,
drivel, drool, falderal, foam, foolishness, froth, fudge, funk,
garbage, gobbledegook, gibberish,  hogwash, horsefeathers, humbug,
idiocy, Jabberwocky, jargon, jive, litter, leverage, malarkey,
nonsense, odds and ends, poppycock, raff, refuse, rejects, remnants,
riffraff, rubbish, rubble, swill_, _tatters, trash, trickery,
tommyrot, twaddle, waste material, wealth, wreckage

3. trumpery as adjective: base, beggarly, brummagem, cheap,
commonplace, flashy, foolish, gaudy, garish, inferior, insignificant,
immaterial, little, mean, mediocre, meretricious, nasty, obscene,
ostentatious, puny, pretentious, poor, rubbishy, schlock, scrubby,
second-rate, shabby, shoddy, showy, slight, small, tawdry, trashy,
trifling, trivial, two-bit_,_ twopenny, unimportant, valueless,
vulgar, worrisome, worthless, worst, wretched

4. trump up: color, conceal, disguise, falsity, garble, gloss over,
hide, mislead, misstate, misrepresent, pervert, twist, warp

5. trump card: ace in the hole, card up one’s sleeve, leg up, secret
advantage, secret weapon, upper hand, whip hand

*Collected from selected thesauri

This poem was first picked for publication by Lummox Anthology #9 due
out in the Fall of 2020.

Ellaraine Lockie is widely published as a poet, nonfiction author and
essayist. Her fourteenth chapbook, _Sex and Other Slapsticks, _was
recently released from Presa Press. Earlier collections have won
Poetry Forum’s Chapbook Contest Prize, San Gabriel Valley Poetry
Festival Chapbook Competition, Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest,
Best Individual Poetry Collection Award from _Purple Patch_ magazine
in England, and _The Aurorean’s_ Chapbook Choice Award. She also
teaches writing workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the
lifestyles magazine, LILIPOH_._

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