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With a Rattle of the Metal · Poetry Short Short ·
Organised by Anon Y Mous
Word limit 100–2000
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No Silver Spoon
The sun shoots up in the morning with joy

A cat yawns and stretches ready to feast

The lazy, snoring old man still sleeps in bed

Royal highness jumps on the subjects chest

Her old human does not stir at the blows

Hungry, angry, she springs the clever move

Taking her empty bowl, the beast leaps up

Onto the man she wacks him in the face

He wakes perturbed, and captures the she-cat

Metal bowl of broken hope falls from her

Into her cage she goes, upset in turn

She yells “You filthy screw!” with her cat tongue

The old man is not at all amused with that

Food and water quite stale are served with spite

Is meager and at his own pace, not haste

The cat in the cradle pouts but munches
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Kind of an amusing scene. It seems like it's trying to have a set number of syllables per line, but I did notice at least one that was different. It feels like the narration switches perspectives numerous times, and not in the obvious places, either. I get that some of it might be driven by word choices made in service to the format, but it's still worth trying to pay attention to.