i hate poetry

I've always hated poetry

Rhyming makes it sound frivolous

Timing makes for constant compromise

Like a closing time bar dribble kiss

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The first line has such options

Rhyme makes the second a cage

Now one must find an exit

Like a toddler leaving the stage

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Now I've set the rhythm

I must stick to it like a fly

On flypaper in a camps kitchen

Or fall in the pan to fry

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Some lines must be read quite quickly

To pretend I got the right number of syllables

Some rhymes must be lubricated

So I can make them fit in holes

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Cliché seems necessary

To fit ideas into this form

Struggle, bend, twist, turn

Thus beauty will be born

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Say what you will of love

Now irony's my captor

Don't blind yourself to the truth

Hatred is an attractor

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