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Thursday, May 6, 2021

I invented this poetic form...

 I will call it the "joke."  The idea is that the second line must negate the first in a surprising way.  I have written three four of them.  

1. 

I handle you carefully, like an antique book...


You are, in fact, an antique book. 


2. 

We can choose the attitude we take toward life, he said.


We threw him in a ditch. 


3.  

My eye doctor recommends artificial tears...


My real ones do just fine, thank you very much.


4.

Words can't tell you what cinnamon tastes like



not even the word cinnamon


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