Parting Company
Here's a poem i hope you read
Because I think you really need
To check your website to make sure
That credit card numbers are secure.
Please let me now tell you why:
My August poem was my first try
To write a poem I hoped would please.
I had a way to pay the fees.
I used my credit card that day
For the fee I had to pay...
A card I'd used for many years
With no concern nor any fears.
But then a single week went by
When I was asked to identify
A strange new charge against my card
Caught by Synchrony security guard.
I didn't freeze my card in terror.
I told Chase Bank it was an error.
I even used that Chase card number
To submit my next poem in September.
Can you guess what happened next?
In one week's time I got a text.
Another strange charge had appeared,
The very thing I should have feared.
Since it happened once before
I can't allow it one time more.
It's going to be extremely hard
To tell folks of my cancelled card.
I don't think it's coincidence,
I've now lost my confidence.
Although i hate to drop this bomb,
I've lost my trust in Poetry.com.
You've seen the last of poems I write.
Please take my name off your website.
About this poem
This poem explains why I will not be submitting any more poems to Poetry.com. I'm not entering it in the contest, so please don't charge anything to the credit card you have on file. It won't go through.
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Written on October 12, 2023
Submitted by andreaferrett on October 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,147 |
Words | 256 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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