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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D. J. Reddall
I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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Comments (3)
Oooo, treat a simile like a prisoner, I especially loved that line!
It seems like I have entered deep into a world of linguistics chaos.....I enjoyed reading your playful sonnet..
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!"