Needs must I assay, with utmost assertion,
Her assets, all, were of the finest display —
Yet must I assert, her fairest ascription
Follows her about in the most pleasing way.
To assess from behind — the soul doth ascend! —
Demands an assiduous aspiration;
An assurgent assurance that, in the end,
Assents to an assize of asseveration!
To assort such an aspect, yet not offend —
For easily may your assigns go astray —
Let not your emotions be astir, my friend,
And, with a subtle assuagement, survey;
So ascetic I must be — or it’s harassment, you see…
Ah, if only she could know how much her ass meant to me!
--Mishka Zakharin
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That's perfect now!
Oh, right, Word has some incompatabilty problems with AP. The solution is to copy from Word into Notepad first - then paste from Notepad onto an 'add a poem' page. 
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Actually, they started out okay in microsoft word... just didn't translate well through the copy/paste phase. I'll have to keep that in mind for future postings...
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Ah yes, this is easier on the eyes, but not so easy to read -- you need more contrast for your text.
Please do fix the spacing on your dashes. That's become a pet peeve for me as a helper/researcher on Oldpoetry I have the unenviable task of fixing hundreds of poems (like Emily Dickinson's) which have been copied (from other web pages presumably) with dashes as hyphens, i.e joining lines of words--together--like that -- instead of as the spaced pause intended. Very tedious
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Ah--thanks... I think I got a bit distracted in the midst of posting, so my background/colors was inadvertantly a bit obnoxious...
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Hahaha! This is so well done! Your deft use of language, clever wordplay and 'bending' the form is really remarkable.
I would only suggest you fix the typos in the dashes, i.e. add a space before and after. I presume you didn't mean to make it a hyphen at the end of the lines. (Or "be-or" a compound word?).
Also, the choice of background colour and text combination is very hard on the eyes - after-image effect etc.
Very clever and funny!
~Gennelle
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