NaPoWriMo 2024 day 19

Pen on top of an open book

Day 19 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

A couplet for the season.

Wake and bake

Don't put it in the oven —
Alarm, don't make a sound —
Just roll it in an ashtray
And pass the blunt around

Featured poem

A kyrielle by Susan Jarvis Bryant.

The Blame Game

by Susan Jarvis Bryant

They rile. They gall. They know it all.
These irksome jerks in folly’s thrall
Are perilously cretinous.
  It’s always Them. It’s never Us.

They grouse and groan. They mope and moan.
With spines of sponge and souls of stone
These gutless gripers cuss and fuss.
  It’s always Them. It’s never Us.

They’re dull of head. Their wits have fled.
Their loony lips are spewing dread—
The chunder of a blunderbuss.
  It’s always Them. It’s never Us.

These cliquey freaks who scheme and sneak
And squeak and shriek in doublespeak
Will claim our blame is scurrilous—
  It’s never Them. It’s always Us.

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