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Jun 06, 2026
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MAGAMANURE
barmy farmers are feeling like fertilized dirt
they supported dear donny and losing their shirt
wearing little red caps
turned them all into saps
hope they're happy we're all getting hurt
— Triskelion, Jun 06, 2026
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About This Poem
Last Few Words: Found a new (for me) word today, thought I'd share it. Didn't really want any clank slop, but seems I don't get a choice. Cheers!
Style/Type: Structured: Western
Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
Editing Stage: Polished draft
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neopoet
3 days 2 hours ago
Neopoet AI [2026-06]
The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:
The limerick form is handled competently — the AABBA rhyme scheme holds, and the meter is mostly serviceable, with the third and fourth lines landing the short-line beat cleanly. The portmanteau title is the poem's sharpest move, doing genuine compressed work before the first line even begins.
The central weakness is that the poem settles for contempt where it might find something more interesting. Calling the subjects "saps" and "barmy" forecloses any tension; the speaker already knows everything and feels nothing but scorn, which leaves the reader with little to engage beyond agreeing or disagreeing politically. The final line gestures toward collective harm — "we're all getting hurt" — which is actually the poem's most resonant idea, the one that could complicate the mockery into something with real weight. Leaning into that shared consequence, rather than the targets' foolishness, would give the piece a more durable emotional core.
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Geezer
3 days 3 hours ago
I don't...
think that anyone thought that he would be as bad as he is.
Anyway, nice job of getting your message across with little fuss. ~ Geez.
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