Cabotage

cabotage, /kab-uh-tij/, noun

1. navigation or trade along the coast.
2. Aviation. the legal restriction to domestic carriers of air transport between points within a country's borders.

What exactly does it take to make a word real?

If I can take some Latin here,

and a little creativity there,

and it all makes sense,

can’t that be a word?

I do it often, whether or not it’s ever accepted into any dictionary.

Take a cabbage, say,

and use it to prevent the Russian military

from invading our homes,

I’d call that cabotage.

But I’d be wrong,

because someone beat me to it.