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Challenge Accepted

And so I lounged on a borrowed couch

Devoid of inspiration

And instead of making the difficult choice

To use my imagination

I went onto my phone to search

The internet for an answer

And I recalled why random prompts

Are worse, perhaps, than cancer.

But undeterred, despite misgivings

I shall now attempt

To write what poetrypromptgenerator.com

Gave me without contempt:

There once was a sanctimonious hand-wringer

Whose neurotic pedantry gave a metaphorical finger

To those who deign to carouse

With those of osseous brows.

Some compare me to him as a visual dead ringer.

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When Your Knowledge Of Obscure Colors Is Bigger Than Your… Other Assets

Her hair was coquelicot.

Her eyes were smaragdine.

Now my heart is glaucous

And not incarnadine

For a man of caput mortuum skin

Made her glow like elephant’s breath

And I smolder like exuberance

And wish for sudden death.

For those so inclined: https://www.color-meanings.com/worst-named-colors/

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Embed Designation At This Location

Rosa Chinensis is vermillion

Viola Sororia is cerulean.

Whether or not I write with a thesaurus

Can be expressed as a value that’s boolean.

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