A Lament on a Misnomer

Think before you use those words people come up with!

I’m not a chocoholic

The term just drives me nuts

So please refrain from using it

And if you really must

Explain to me in syllables

Of choc or o or hol-ic

Exactly how you parse the term

(It’s giving me a colic)

If I boozed unto excess

I’d be an alcoholic

That’s alcohol plus ic, you see

(And pretty melancholic)

Now play the game of mashing terms

And look at chocoholic

And you will see it flouts the form

It’s horribly shambolic

Chocolate plus ic, you see!

So give that fake the flick

And say the proper term with me

I am a chocolate-ic.