We cannot be out of coffee, I have deadlines to meet!
Have you checked the cabinet? There's air inside my mug!
Get me caffeine, don't care what kind, not bitter, nor too sweet.
******
Don't stand there staring stupidly! Hustle before I yeet
Your laptop out the window for being far too smug.
We cannot be out of coffee, I have deadlines to meet!
******
Don't care what doom the weather holds, be it rain, hail, snow, or sleet,
Get in the car and procure for me the best inspiring drug,
Get me caffeine, don't care what kind, not bitter, nor too sweet.
******
Cola? Fine. Chai? Okay. Black tea's like smoky peat,
But a triple shot espresso is like a warming hug,
We cannot be out of coffee, I have deadlines to meet!
******
Get me the darkest chocolate you'd ever want to meet
If they're out of mocha macchiatos yet again – ugh!
Get me caffeine, don't care what kind, not bitter, nor too sweet.
******
You got it?? You're not joking now? For real? YESSS! Such a feat!
I'll start on work as soon as I've demolished my elixir chug,
We cannot be out of coffee, I have deadlines to meet!
Get me caffeine, don't care what kind, not bitter, nor too sweet.
About the Creator
Meredith Harmon
Mix equal parts anthropologist, biologist, geologist, and artisan, stir and heat in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, sprinkle with a heaping pile of odd life experiences. Half-baked.
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What possible villanelle or villanelless would dare abscond with such necessities!!!!? (Yes, it took me a long time to understand that villanelles have nothing to do with villains when Mike first introduced the form to me.)
Hahah. Excellent work Meredith! ☕️ 👏
Banana for scale, huh? Ugh, drinking small innocent molecules 😶
A hilarious take on the Villanelle. :D
"Hustle before I yeet Your laptop--" Hilarious line lol. Nice Job.
"Wheeee! I'm flyyyying!" - The Laptop, or perhaps the Author's mind one nanosecond after the story ends