Shoe You Fool
What kind of shoe do you throw at a heel who cannot control his old tongue?
Throw him a soul. It might make him whole, but make it one covered in dung.
Better get laced to boot in his face. And make it so up upper class.
And just use the lower to boot his rear blower, what some might be calling his ass.
But that's him all over, just kick him, like Rover; and right to Hell give him the boot.
With rubber to blubber a duckie to clobber him right in the self rightous snoot.
Maybe a sandal would properly handle the protocol needed right now.
Then shoving a Wellie right up where it's smelly would send the right message, like wow.
An Oxford in ass would give too much class. A saddle shoe might be the thing.
I just can't decide. Just any old hide will do. Kick him out of the ring.
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What kind of shoe
do you throw at a heel
who cannot control his old tongue?
Throw him a soul.
It might make him whole,
but make it one covered in dung.
Better get laced
to boot in his face.
And make it so up upper class.
And just use the lower
to boot his rear blower,
what some might be calling his ass.
But that's him all over,
just kick him, like Rover;
and right to Hell give him the boot.
With rubber to blubber
a duckie to clobber
him right in the self rightous snoot.
Maybe a sandal
would properly handle
the protocol needed right now.
Then shoving a Wellie
right up where it's smelly
would send the right message, like wow.
An Oxford in ass
would give too much class.
A saddle shoe might be the thing.
I just can't decide.
Just any old hide
will do. Kick him out of the ring.
This is a delightful poem when properly structured, employing its end line rhyme and the enjambment needed to bring its humor to the fore.
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I grew up on Robert Service
who used the same type of internal rhyming scheme constantly. I've never seen anyone try to 'structure' it 'properly'. It would make whole books of some of his and my poetry. Glad you enjoyed. -
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I'm glad you fancy yourself a Robert Service. I know his work well and recognize when internal rhyme is being used effectively and when it is being used clumsily in order to disguise the endline rhyme, which is what it seemed like you were doing here. It isn't preferable to read something like this with lines so long you sacrificed them to broken lines where shorter ones would have been much more "Serviceable" and interesting looking, espcially with the three line stanzas which progress from short to long lines.
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Excellent array of choices.
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I really don't think
the fool knows that he has been insulted in a way he will never be able to recover from.
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Venomous,but righteously accurate. Pity the city of Dallas.
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My pity is
much more widely spread. Never before has one man come this close to ruining the Earth. Compared to him Hitler was a Boy Scout. He should have been hung at the point that is was discovered that his WMD obsession was just a hoax.
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