The youth sought to forge a utopia, but suffered a kind of myopia. They built a grand city, but the people were shitty. That's how you make a gleaming dystopia.
Utopian Limerick
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Victoria Falls [Limerick]
A couple went to Victoria Falls to see its splendor with their own eyeballs, but when they got near they squinted and peered but all they saw was a foggy, gray wall!
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Spines Aglow [Haiku]
the frilly spines of an iguana catch light, marring camo
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Cancun Limerick
The kids struck out for the white sands of Cancun, but to avoid throngs they went at high noon. A crowd, there was not. It was so freakin' hot that each and every last one of them swooned.
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The Gorge [Haiku]
at cliff's edge i look to distant waters, mind jumps / body won't
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Nashville Limerick
There was a fine singer from Nashville who couldn't ever get on a show bill. Others sang of their trucks, but he drove a Prius. So, relating through song was a task, uphill.
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Houston Limerick
There was a rich man from Houston who sought a nice pad to roost in. He soon found his lair, and worked right downstairs. And, thus, felt the ups and downs of Houston.
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Puddle Mirror [Haiku]
the puddle reflects clouds, mountains, and sky more vivid than truth
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Green City [Tanka]
a desert city stretches green between the mountains; do people choose trees, or do trees co-opt humans?
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Invisible Fetters [Tetrametric Verse]
People penned up without borders by some hidden social order wear uniform-less uniforms, and form a matrix, not a swarm. What invisible chains bind them? Where are the minders who mind them? Is compliance written in our genes -- remnant from ages of Kings and Queens?
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