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Ocelot II

(115,829 posts)
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:10 PM Apr 2023

I have just written a sonnet for TFG!

A shambling hulk with urine-colored hair
And lumpy, greasy face all orange and saggy
Slithered down his golden moving stair,
Once stood before the world in clothing baggy.

Imaginary concertina playing
As tiny baby hands move through the air.
Nasal bleating, whining, sneering, neighing
Tells us how the Deep State isn’t fair.

“What?” he says, “The D.A. is indictin’?
Since I did nothing wrong, how can that be?
It’s Hillary, or maybe Hunter Biden!
Not a thing could be the fault of me.”

But toadlike there he squats, with face of poker
Since nothing rhymes with orange, we’ll call it ocher.

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I have just written a sonnet for TFG! (Original Post) Ocelot II Apr 2023 OP
ROFL!!! Brilliant! 50 Shades Of Blue Apr 2023 #1
Well done! MLAA Apr 2023 #2
Good work there. yonder Apr 2023 #3
Toxicmandias! I am Toxicmandias, thing of things! Ocelot II Apr 2023 #5
Love it! 2naSalit Apr 2023 #4
Excellent! Marthe48 Apr 2023 #6
A lovely Easter Sonnet for the man-baby in his bonnet Blue Owl Apr 2023 #7
Well done! I love the imagery! highplainsdem Apr 2023 #8

MLAA

(17,318 posts)
2. Well done!
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:13 PM
Apr 2023

My favorite line is ‘Nasal bleating, whining, sneering, neighing
Tells us how the Deep State isn’t fair.’

yonder

(9,670 posts)
3. Good work there.
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 09:30 PM
Apr 2023

You could call it "The Reckoned Frothing of Toxicmandias".

Apologies to Yeats and Shelley.

highplainsdem

(49,029 posts)
8. Well done! I love the imagery!
Wed Apr 5, 2023, 09:50 AM
Apr 2023

And kudos for writing this yourself. I'm running across so much AI-generated stuff on Twitter and Reddit these days (and sometimes, but fortunately rarely, on DU) that it's great to see people writing poetry on their own.

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