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White Lies · Poetry Minific ·
Organised by Anon Y Mous
Word limit 3–1000

Original. No theme.

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Procrastination — it's like
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#1 · 1
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This is maybe:

My favorite of the non-WIlliam Carlos Williams fan poems this round. Simple, direct, to-the-point: what's not to like? Maybe the title could be all lower-case, or it could've been called "Title Pending" or something. But other than that, I got nothing.

Mike
#2 ·
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I feel like I’m gonna have the hot take here and say I wasn't super fond of this one; it’s clever, and honestly, the more I think about it, the more I like it. Still... it didn’t really grab me. It’s a super common theme and doesn’t really do all that much for me in general.

Pros: it tell the story with so little, and something we all know very well.
Cons: I’ve seen this kind of story so many times in the writeoffs before, and outside of it too.
Additional praise: this is the most clever iteration of it I’ve read.

Chalk it up to my own tastes. Possible abstention? I’ll need to ruminate more as I am a very deep thinker with many robust folds and creases in my brain
#3 ·
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The idea here is effective, but the message is far from original, and... well, I don't want to demean this entry, because I don't think it's dumb at all, but I'm going to liken it to a dumb joke. Once you've heard it, you find it amusing the one time, but then it's lost its effectiveness, and you're not going to enjoy it on repeated tellings. It's really only going to have that power once. It's also the kind of thing that probably didn't take more than a few seconds to think up, which doesn't make it bad, but does mean it doesn't stand up as well to ones that succeeded while obviously taking an impressive effort.
#4 ·
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[I'll come back to this one]