No Doggerel
By Lou Blodgett
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For a modern eon, there’s been an odd tradition.
Of doggerel.
Semiotic babbling scrambling every damn edition.
It’s doggerel.
There oughta be a law, or a related conviction.
For doggerel.
That’s it. There. I’ve said it. Even a restriction.
‘Gainst doggerel.
No doggerel. Don’t want
your doggerel!
Please, leave it with your aunt.
No doggerel.
Creepy-crawly brain-worm haunt.
No doggerel.
Spare me the font.
No doggerel.
Rhyme with the sublime, then strike a rhyme with mean.
Write doggerel.
Go to the extreme, then dart back in-between.
Write doggerel.
Write it when you feel you’re part of the machine.
A coggerel.
Dudley Do-Right, Wimpy, and even Mister Clean
write doggerel.
I’m not a toy.
No doggerel.
I’m not Bob Hope or Myrna Loy.
No doggerel.
If there’s one dog boy.
There’s a dog girl.
You might think I’m bein’ coy.
With doggerel.
Each stanza has four lines. A format that I hate.
Of doggerel.
Just line up the rhymes or you can have them alternate.
With doggerel.
Typing up a storm. Not resigned to fate.
Through doggerel.
Others lament, others still berate.
With doggerel.
Nothing like a song.
No doggerel.
And we’ll get along.
No doggerel.
Don’t make the reader use a spoon.
No doggerel.
A dusty road in the month of June.
No doggerel!
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After spending HOURS trying
After spending HOURS trying to write something which rhymes this makes me feel inadequate :0) I love :
Rhyme with the sublime, then strike a rhyme with mean.
Write doggerel.
Go to the extreme, then dart back in-between.
Write doggerel.
Write it when you feel you’re part of the machine.
A coggerel.
Coggerel is genius
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