An "apt hyperbole"

An "apt hyperbole" really 
ought to be a contradiction 
in terms, seeing as hyperbole 
is exaggeration past what's 
possible for rhetorical 
effect. As a device, it's 
clearly hard to surpass.  
Whatever else you do in 
that line is hyperbole also.

So how can so wild a shot be "apt"?

Complicating matters, "apt hyperbole"
ideally ought to be - I mean the phrase
itself - an apt hyperbole. That would be
so neat! But here at least we have some 
definite answers: it isn't. It isn't even
hyperbole, the phrase itself, let alone
apt. Fit to the task. It ruins enjoyment 
of language, how we can't manage 
to name these things in

more clever, self-referential ways.

Why is palindrome not a palindrome?
Double it if you have to!
"Emordnilapalindrome" or
"Palindromemordnilap," which
do you prefer, and how hard
was that? Whatever government's
been doing all these years, clearly
somebody's dropped the ball.

Well, it won't be me.

If you want me, need me
I've been closeted away, sweating
out and fretting up a list of apt
hyperbole. In case 

you were wondering.