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Scott the GrotBot by Terry Reilly
Monorhyme writing prompt entry

 

I wish that I had never bought

that winking, blinking household bot.

If I’d accepted what I’d got

I wouldn't now be overwrought.

But “no!”, I had this crazy thought,

AI would simplify my lot.

The robot greeted me, “Hi, Dot,

I guess that you can call me Scott.”

It set to work, I kid you not,

against the dust and stains it fought.

It hoovered, washed, disposed of rot,

each place it cleaned it hit the spot.

So many things in vain I sought,

it even moved my cooking pot.

It left no dirt, no, not a jot,

but then it smashed my flowerpot.

It clanged, it banged it baulked at naught,

though I admired, my nerves were shot.

I felt my muscles getting taut,

I was becoming quite distraught.

I hoped that it would get too hot,

and melt into a pile of snot.

I’d been in my own trap well caught,

much better to have drowned in grot!



Writing Prompt
A Monorhyme is a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme.

     

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