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Eve of destruction

Jessica McWhirt
2 min readApr 3, 2020

List 10 words. Use RhymeZone to come up with a list of rhymes and near rhymes. And write a poem using them.

we didn’t have a solution

to the pollution of our minds

where evolution stalled

execution flourished

and the contribution of thought

disappeared

it was the year

we stayed home in fear

cheered behind closed doors

listened to an insincere president

as we stocked up on gear

that’d last us at least two weeks

he was the bogeyman

our parents warned us about

if we didn’t get to sleep -

a man with a feeble plan

who began to destroy us

from inside-out

we had to get the facts

through the grapevine

from those with metal spines

rebels at the waistline

give ’em some wine,

tell ’em their mine,

and let them fuck some shit up

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