This is making me smile very wide.

>>Dubs_Rewatcher:

Now I wanna do one where he eats the chickens with a nice plum sauce...

Mike

I demand to know what the author of this poem eats for breakfast.

The mood of this just hits perfectly. I like it better without considering the prompt, as it feels more heartfelt that way. I'm not sure how deception comes into it. He's not lying about breaking the wheelbarrow, and he hasn't offered up an explanation for how he broke it that might be untruthful. Just the "glazed with water," but I don't even know what that means that would lead to an explanation of how it broke.

This is so far above my pay grade that I can't even explain why it works, but again, taken without the prompt, it suggests so much about the setting and the relationship of the characters without ever really talking about either. It accomplishes a whole lot more than the words say.

>>Pascoite:

One of the ways it works with the deception part of the prompt is that it's a sort of mash-up of two poems by William Carlos Willliams: "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "This is Just to Say"... :)

Mike

>>Baal Bunny
Oh, hm. I'd read that second one long ago and completely forgotten about it.

I don't know how I feel about this now. There's some art in putting the parts together and making it work, but I don't want to give someone too much credit for things they didn't write. It's like giving Danger Mouse credit for Beatles songs because they made the Grey Album.

I hear what you said

now run down to the home
depot

and purchase the chromium
bolt

and use the crescent
wrench

things fall apart
and the center isn't steady

but we can't lose
any more
icons

Beautiful. I love the original William Carlos Willliams. Good mashup.

>>Dubs_Rewatcher, >>Baal Bunny, >>Miller Minus, >>Pascoite, >>LoftyWithers

this is just to say

thanks for the silver
medal

which you had to give out
anyway

but which I got by a frivolous
parody

please forgive me