No! Does Not Mean Maybe Or If



Nowhere is a 'no' said found to find,
Defined as meaning...
If.
Or the possibility,
A 'no' could be a 'maybe'...
To insist with persistence,
That a prolonged agitating...
Will change the mind of one knowing,
Aggravation patiently tolerated...
Has become an invitation,
For one to enter...
Into a screaming shouting match to start.

'I said NO!
Even spelling it backward,
Will mean 'ON' my nerves...
You have successfully gotten to get.
But I said NO!
Meaning for you to go...G-O.
Leaving me alone.
And take that B.S. with you.'

'Okay, okay I understand.
You don't have $20 to loan to me.
How about $5?
And I promise this time,
To pay you back the money I already owe you.
Next month!'

'Do me a favor.'

'Sure.'

'Go to that closet door over there.
Open it.
And bring to me my baseball bat.
I feel like hitting a couple of soft balls!'

'What?
You think I'm that nuts?'

'No.
I don't think that at all.
But something tells me,
I need proof...
You have not lost your mind!'

'I'm not into violence.'

'Neither am I.
I am more into achieving understanding.
The best way I can.
To be left understood.'

'I'm leaving.
But I don't see a baseball bat.
Not in this closet.
Did you put it somewhere else?'

'No.
Go...
Away.
Now!'
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Written on August 06, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 06, 2023

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Scheme abxccdbbxxex fxxxffxg xcxxgx e xxhx ix Fxcxa d xbxx bhix Ffxx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,222
Words 288
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 12, 8, 6, 1, 4, 2, 5, 1, 4, 4, 4

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