An expert at failure was set to the task
of policing thought though nobody had asked
her expert opinion of what they believed
she thought they expressed when she asked them to leave.
Author notes
"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A contest entry
- Irony, Satire, and Sarcasm (Quotes and a Picture Prompt) by Wandering Woodchuck.
666 points, ended September 5, 2008, 11 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Congrats on your HM with this piece. It may be short but your words overflow with imagery.
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the private soul needs such protection.
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"nobody had asked her expert opinion" I have met lots of people like that!
Like the quote from Dostoevsky and must remember it as a charitable way of thinking of the sarcastic family members and other people I have met. Myself included at times.
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I am like a goldfish swimming against the glass of my limitations here... My comprehension can't do this many loops...
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Oh, so succinctly put. Enjoyed this immensely.
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Haha! Very good indeed my friend. Sort of rings a bell too.
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Short and sweet. Well put and well rhymed. I like it alot.
Could you please put the prompt that you used in your AN?
Thanks.
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