Colossal in their mammoth most,
Extreme and ultra beaucoup gross.
Most are small, slight and little,
Minute, smidge, smitch, and snitch,
Scant, and sheer, stark and scarce,
Barely not a wit, nor stitch.
Some are eminent, transcendent,
Superior, senior, and predominate.
Excel! Surpass! Exceed and better!
A cut, a stroke above the main.
Many are base, and second fiddle,
Subordinate, shabby, bottom drawer,
Tip-the-hat, understrappers
Inferior, low, and in the shade.

Some advance, and some expand,
Increase, gain, grow, extend,
Build up, pyramid, and parlay,
To mount and fuel the rising flames
Before decrease and lapse, they wane,
Downturn, fall, and fade away;
Cut down, rolled back, then shortened,
They waste away, wear and tear.

Mortals are addenda, and appendixes,
Supplemented to all issued things:
Codicils, postscripts, offshoots
Allonged, lapelled, suffixed.
Criminals are deducted, and removed:
Subtracted, tarred without rebate -
Rubbed out, ruled out and written off:
Struck off, knocked off, or erased.
Tramps are remains, relics, remnants:
Odds and ends, rags and scrags,
Parings, raspings, filings, shavings;
Fag-ends, doubts, stumps, butts.

Kings smack of vestage. Hybrid too!
Mixed and blended, instilled, fused,
Touch of tar, and interbred -
Hodge podge, mixty-maxty through!