Poems from the 12-Hour Couplets Contest: Gag Ordered, Frances Boyle
Frances Boyle is a noted Canadian poet and fiction writer. Her poetry collections include Openwork and Limestone and Light-carved Passages.
Gag Ordered
The blank page awaits; it’s time for a poem
I can read them, critique them, think that
I know ’em
but the slippery old words slide just out
of reach.
Why won’t they fall in my hand like a
low-hanging peach
not hide among brambles like the worst kind
of berry?
Is it hard to write humour? You might say so. Very.
It’s not that I’m trying for a veritable
saga
or rhymes that will twine endlessly like a
raga
just a snippet of verse with lines that
ring true
(oh, and something that’s funny, I need
that part too).
So I give up and press save on this
fine piece of doggerel
―just don’t mention, I beg you, that my dog
is a mongrel.
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