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A while now, I have tried to keep from writing pentameter. It's like a habit I've been trying to kick, when every foot in five steps down a line. It's like a jones I'm fighting, the cigarette I stop myself from lighting, a deathwish my addiction keeps alive, but I can’t help myself. Do I derive warped pleasure from my versifying, the biting & chewing of my musings into neat, pre-packaged utterances? & Since when is truth a tally of iambic feet, enumerated rigidly on ten quick-bitten digits? Why do I repeat this pattern? Shit, I’ve just relapsed again.
First appeared on the Sonnet Board in 2015.
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This text was added to the website: 2018-10-09
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