Medieval Execution Tanka
They ask the poet
how he’d prefer to be killed.
Boiled in oil, he says.
But won’t that hurt quite a bit?
Oh yes, he says, but that rhyme!
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Love Love this!!
off-the-charts imagination
sing-a-song
of
blistered toil
This is funny, Kevin–the things poets go through for the sake of a word!
So very clever!
So funny! I know I should say something else but I’m laughing.
Just what I needed today! You never fail us!
Another fun one!
Thanks everybody! I decided to have a little fun this year, lean into the comedy more than I usually do. I blame Cathy Perkins, who is SUCH a bad influence on me. 😏
Ha ha!
Truth.