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Poetic Licence to Kill
Recent entries and comments sparked me again to sabotage my own poetry. So the challenge is to part write something poetic, but at appropriate times destroy its rhythm or rhyme. I found this challenging (it probably shows ha ha!) but it's a really good mental exercise to deliberately take yourself out of the flow!
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WellOKThen

Police

You have issued me a task

and all of my you ask

is to write a rhyme

and I do this all the time

I could write about the moon

or the summer nights in June

But instead, let's play a game

and "Police" is its name

What's wrong with English prose

is amoung us there are those

who take a certain word

then redefine it, so obsurd

"Police" is one of these

to understand is a breeze

it's a verb, adjective, a noun

Heck, it could even be a town

How many times can you say

"Police" in a way

That sounds like a phrase

Here is one of the ways

"Police police police Police police policing Police police."