Time Off Or Is It?

Say It Again Challenge - The Prompt: Write a satirical poem that repeats one line at least three times. Each time it appears, its meaning should shift or deepen.

Repetition can sharpen a point or quietly undo it. Here, it needs to do both. Build your poem around a line that comes back at least three times. Each return should shift how it reads, shaped by what surrounds it and what’s already been said.

By the final repetition, the line shouldn't land the way it did at the start.

I should have finished my book by now

May has just been so busy and how now brown cow

June fifteen is my yearly fundraiser, and started in May

I should have finished my book by now!!

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Who can write a book with so many others' words

Why did I think interviews would work, only nerds

would think that and I'm not a nerd or am I

All I know is I should have finished my book by now

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It's all the time they gave me. My final report is in August

I have to finish two interviews in June, I am just

editing in between all the other things on my calendar

I have to create a website I said, I wonder

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My son can do that, him and my daughter can take photos

I will do them myself, I work well under pressure, and it shows

Adreneline helps. End of June will be my new deadline.

Then I will have finished my book or is this just a line.

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Tell me please, am I dreaming? I really have no business

writing this book, right? This is pure meanness,

of course I can do this, what is getting in my way?

I should have finished my book by now I say!

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Starting now, I will get so much done today

Afterall, it is only water ceremony day

cemetery day, and Austin's birthday

There are hours in between and evening

and July will be the next training

To plan to end in June is a great next target

Then to get this book to the market.