The greatest joy in life is prose

So freed from poetry’s many woes

For prose has much more varied themes

And won’t adhere to dull rhyme schemes.

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Plus, metaphors in common text

Leave readers thinking and perplexed

Whereas, in poems, being required

Never seem quite as inspired.

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And then horrendous meter. Ho!

Don’t use such trashy junk, oh no.

For prose is quite exempt from that

Conformity makes writing flat.

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But worst of all are stanzas. Ugh!

A chain that poets are forced to lug

Thus cramping style; not even half

As pleasing as a paragraph.

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Such tyranny restrains the words,

Leaves poets earthbound like flightless birds

Constrained by rules the poor bards chose.

Bah to poems! Stick with prose.