Alas, I did not win, run up, or get mentioned,
honorably or otherwise.
Do I regret villanelle hell?
I’ll never tell.
L👀K!! 🧿 m⛑️ a 🧂
Best rhymes live south of reason,
hide inside a line disguised as mundane prose,
might be giving you the finger
for your silly linguistic addictions.
The Guiltmas challenges are coming!
I did nazi all of this coming, MAGA whines,
“Don’t blame me! It’s not fair to hold me responsible for my actions! Fake fucking news! Liberal intellectuals are stupid!”
Never saw an eagle with one wing fly.
Bojangles doesn’t offer a nine-piece.
At least we still have Willie, there’s another challenge coming, and, as always in our po-mo world:
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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By Adam Diehl5 days ago in Fiction
Comments (3)
lol —I entered too but have no interest to write with rhyme or constraint. Mine was 22 lines and no structure.
I never win, and now Vocal has taken away most of my readers; I am sure you will have a Top Story or Leaderboard place, and then a Challenge placement as well. I am now a Vocal ghost. This is an excellent piece and will probably get a top STory
Righteous writing. Riotous.