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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Jonathan, you've been accessing your inner Dylan (always a good thing!) I noticed that just "about the time the door knob broke", here in Desolation Row.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

And “glowed like [burning] coal” from Tangled Up in Blue.

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Well, all I can say to that is, “Keep on keepin’ on.”

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B Stings's avatar

Fun collection. I must cheat at that task and look for a pirated answer key

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Even better!

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Kim Nelson's avatar

Love the way you play with form, Jonathan!

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Thank you, Kim!

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

#8: Name the years / this was not / what we did / if you can / though it’s true / all but one / were never / convicted / of their crimes.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Touché

X. P.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

“Psychopath”

Is perhaps

A better

Three-count word

To describe

The moron

We somehow

Elected.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

That sounds right. / See above.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

I should have

Known better

Than to doub-

Le down on

The master.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

sound of one / hand typing

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Broo's avatar

great stuff! U must be hip to Fry's "The Ode less travelled" too which similarly examines poetry, and the many styles (but maybe not as comprehensive as yrs here!)

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Frederick Fullerton's avatar

If I were to analyze my own work, I'd have to add a 14th category or subcategory: Asininic, in which regardless the syllabic form, the poem remains an asinine failure.

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

LOLic

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Jonathan Potter's avatar

Had to look it up!

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