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Printer's Devil

A Sonnet

By D. J. ReddallPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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Let it get weird, confusing and obscure

Use the vexing, esoteric diction

Infect imaginations; give no cure

Generate a poetic addiction

End a line with a preposition to

Vex pedants and incur their pompous wrath;

To boldly split an infinitive, you

Adamantly refuse to do the math

Unleash a metaphor and ride it all night

Treat a simile like a prisoner;

Make your text a synecdoche for spite

Play the part of a sinister scrivener

Write not to delight, but to befuddle

Offer no tidy answers; just trouble

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About the Creator

D. J. Reddall

I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran2 years ago

    Oooo, treat a simile like a prisoner, I especially loved that line!

  • shanmuga priya2 years ago

    It seems like I have entered deep into a world of linguistics chaos.....I enjoyed reading your playful sonnet..

  • Gerard DiLeo2 years ago

    Genius! Now, you need to go further and add to this, because nowhere do I see a dangling modifier or a nonspecific appositive. Tempt me, devil! Reminds me of the boy who wrote, "I seek the place I'm going to"; to which his teacher said you can't end that with a proposition. To which he revise it, "I seek the place I'm going to, asshole!"

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