Bend By Mind, Straighten By Hand
As it went Ami knew Usher who knew Uma
Uma was cousin to Uri who had taught her,
So by the time Ami learned it in high drama
Forget occult, just required a good teacher.
Ami being adept at getting parking spaces
Anywhere anytime n' dissolving big nimbus,
Could finish sentences by reading the faces
Easily as any normal paranormal obsesses.
It comes to pass a casual dinner of deviants
Broker broken bread n' cracked open heads,
N' silverware of quality being under influence
Of spoon-bending truants street-wise "cred".
As was uncommonly common a 'norm' I host
Dining drawn on broad swath of abnormality,
Often as not becoming subject of timely roast
I 'straighten' wares the older way in formality.
TBollinger
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Submitted on February 06, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CXCX XXXD DDDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 121 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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