Upstarts!

Classic Western Stories

Upstarts!..

like American Speech
good Fighting Talk was
big and unwieldy.

Others were—
you know the sort of thing.

. . . . . . .

The OED word of the day for today's erasure poem|commentary is yet another in a string of bizarre obsolete words: potwalloper. Really, the OED dudes are NOT giving me a lot to work with! :)