Disambiguation

Antinomy is when, of two things, both can’t be right.
Antimony is mostly found in sulfide mineral stibnite.
A big difference indeed, but still not quite antonymy,
Nor yet, like bank and bank, bark and bark, homonymy:
As also when we learn,
That coke is something that you burn,
And coke is something that you drink and something that you snort,
And Edward Coke sollicited before the English court.
Parsimony is, like, when you say no more words than suit,
Persimmony’s the essence of a common Asian fruit.
Possum is Latin for whatever I can do,
Opossum with an o entails things I can’t do too,
Like playing dead, or tonic immobility (synonymy),
Among the other features of this noble beast’s zoonomy.

Comments

[Leon Garcia Garagarza]

Possums Mr. and ms. Marsupials/gratefully hand us your bags./
Our Nahua Tlacuatzin ("Revered ("litle") eater of things") /Equals English possum somehow, your/whatever yiu can do,/ while
Some Spanish colonist decided /to call you "Zarigüeya"/ when he saw you/,long ago.//
I don't know why or how he did it,/ but he was sure/ lost in the Americas,/
in our Anahuac/ in the place ringed by water,/
where the revered ("little")/ eater of things happily/ thrives.
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[R Nichols]

'sollicited' – a typo, or am I missing something clever? Of course, 'solicit' is from the Latin 'sollicitare' (to stir or agitate), so perhaps I have ... Or maybe it was simply spelled thus in Coke's day ... Or ... With a poem, speculation is, and should be, endless.