The pyrrhic/spondee substitution

[milo]

Today I saw a sight that puzzled me:
an abacus wielding robot: redundancy
made manifest. A Sigmund Freud
reading humanoid
I next observed. The sick android
people watched, fair maidens perved.
What now? Machine writ poetry
on the horror of rust, metallic void?

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It’s not a spondee
I just wanted to use “abacus”

Solid use of abacus.  

Can you think of any line at all even using a different word that sets up the substitution?

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Ugh, I'm so out of practice I feel the wheels grinding just reading your explanation. But yes, I'm in favor of all loop holes that work. I think having a skeleton, preferably almost invisible, to hang the poem on can give it a substance that a reader can feel. Meter, rhyme, the japanese forms with syllable/line count can all pull the reader along, ideally without them even noticing. It's often difficult to work within a framework and still have it read as naturally as free verse but it's fun to attempt and when successful gets those poems to really stick.

I think like with anything else, practicing makes it more natural.Maybe we should set up one of those add a line threads or something for practice? Lord knows I could use a refresher