Random Prompt #18

[busker]

War criminal is too grand:
off the cuff
criminal is enough.

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I thought at first to write a simple sonnet
telling of the pain and strife of war
and people packed like seeds in pomegranate
I thought.  At first, to write a simple sonnet
just bait then switch then ponder further on it
and then don't bother, a triolet is easy or
I thought.  At first to write a simple sonnet
simply tell of pain and strife of war

or wat not

Too good

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Damn - I didn’t read the prompt closely