Not a Ghazal

Wordle is catching everywhere, but among poets the ghazal still holds

sway, the repeated refrain, couplets that look the same, a minimum

of five but not much more than fifteen, and there you go ghazal.

Get off the marks. The race is friendly. There is no grand jury

or even arbitration, just write to get endorphins out and for the good

of the nation; keep on writing even if desire is wanting, but look ahead,

you can see the finishing line. Stay strong, write on, keep the filly

snorting, stirrup pressed, and whip flaying. Oh my God, I just

realized, I am beating the horse and this should get me into deep

horse sh.t in our politically correct ghazal days. Oh , by the way,

this is not a ghazal, did not mean to be, even if I might have

been imprecise at the beginning, misleading at a minimum.

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