A Mild Success in a Dull Business

[Knot]

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Hi Tqb,
I'd quibble about mild (in the title), seems a bit unnatural in terms of speech, but ... I enjoyed the read.
You start of with something approaching a regular meter and rhyme, but then it promptly vanishes. Why? (If you don't want the rhyme, switch lines one and two)


For twenty odd years
I taught all over the Southwest
software packages for processing
interlibrary loan requests.

alternative
[i]Best part of thirty years I taught a bunch[/i]
of software packages for processing
interlibrary loan requests.................... not entirely sure this detail's necessary (it doesn't appear relevant to anything that follows)
all over the Southwest,


One time, somewhere in Arizona
a loudspeaker interrupted me
all morning long. Over and over (over and over / again and again, probably redundant)
"this is where you put the announcement" (which should rhyme with 'me')

During the dreaded
after lunch session
it began once more.

When it began again, after lunch
I looked at the speaker on the wall
mimed locking a shell into an automatic

and shot it into silence.
for the the first and last time.
My audience applauded


Best, Knot


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