He challenged me to write a Villanelle.
His smugness makes me bilious, but, hey,
He clearly doesn’t know me very well.

He planned to undermine me: I could tell
His chauvinistic manner and the way
he challenged me to write a Villanelle.

And yet, I’m tough, I work in Personnel.
I’ll write a Villanelle without delay.
He clearly doesn’t know me very well.

I scribble, scream, throw down my pen and yell.
Yet he, for sure, must live to rue the day
he challenged me to write a Villanelle.

My confidence begins to rise and swell.
He’s smugly watching from a way away.
He clearly doesn’t know me very well.

The marriage is a joke: in fact it’s hell.
He’ll get the papers through the door today.
He challenged me to write a Villanelle.
He clearly doesn’t know me very well.