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Working Your Ass Off

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)

Free verse
Almost seventy,
What is called working
Your ass off, is when
You're on the throne you,
Stain the porcelain.

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A sixty-seven year old man with prostate cancer.

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Written on March 09, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on March 09, 2024

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Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 107
Words 21
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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