I haven’t come to rest on your porch just to be accused and then arrested. I just need a rest from the world. As for the rest of you, I don’t suppose you’ve stirred from the comfort of the armrest, though some have surely suffered— cardiac arrest and all. Here’s where life’s symphony rests— a pause between notes— not because it wants to, but this measure calls for it, two beats. I haven’t come to your porch to rest, but I feel the sleep tickling the edges of my eyes with the lack of inertia that plagues the subject at rest.
An exercise where you choose a word and use it in as many ways as possible throughout the poem, attempting to infuse a rhythm with the word without coming off as repetitive.