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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

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

About the Author

Country/Region: Lake Simcoe Canada

Favorite Poets: Poe, Frost, E.B. Browning, Theodor Seuss Geisel,

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Critiques

neopoet

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

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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