Poems don’t have to rhyme, free verse it isn’t a crime I can write what I please—don’t call the police. Must I play the game, both rhyme and spill intimate things? Can I develop leitmotifs without rhyming riffs? I could claim I’m writing prose - yeah, be one of those. No one can rhyme all the time. I can refuse—I’m no Dr F-ing Seuss, **** it! ← See? THAT didn’t rhyme. (sirens in the distance) . . Fun songs for this: Ain't It Fun by Paramore It's All Your Fault (with Katie Shore) by Asleep At The Wheel
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge 01/12/25: leitmotif = a dominant recurring theme (in song, poems or speeches)