The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9
76. Paradelle — Rage Quit
Buttons are mashed! The controller is crap!
Buttons are mashed! The controller is crap!
After too many failed attempts, you go bonkers.
After too many failed attempts, you go bonkers.
Crap buttons! Controller is, too! You are mashed—
Go bonkers after the many failed attempts.
Resist dashing the controller on the wall!
Resist dashing the controller on the wall!
So you scream and curse like the Devil in heat.
So you scream and curse like the Devil in heat.
You scream. And so, like . . resist the devil in heat!
Curse the controller dashing on the wall!
Need to calm down? Take a break? Or walk?
Need to calm down. Take a break. Or walk.
Eat Snickers to stop screaming death metal vocals?
Eat Snickers to stop screaming death metal vocals.
Vocals break down. Stop screaming! Need to calm.
Take to death metal. Or a walk. Eat Snickers.
You are bonkers after the many failed attempts.
You scream—the controller dashing on the wall!
And so, like . . Curse crap buttons! Controller is mashed, too!
Vocals break down. Stop screaming!
Resist the devil in heat! Need to calm.
Take to death metal. Or a walk. Go eat Snickers.
(To be continued...)
A/N: A Paradelle, invented by United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins as a parody of the villanelle, "is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only these words" (footnote to "Paradelle for Susan," 1997).
Meter: Free verse
Rhyme: None
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