What if these notes didn’t rhyme?
would you even take the …moment?

Would you think they weren’t so witty,
and like the fool you’d give them …condolence?

Sometimes I just can’t find the word
to rhyme with something that I’ve …listened to.

And sometimes when I sit to write,
it doesn’t matter if morning or …evening;

I can’t get past this writer’s block
and so I sit and stare at my …watch.

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll find my mojo,
until then, I’ll be in my …small room.

© 2018 | Story by Cary Snowden | Illustration by Zach Clough | All Rights Reserved. | #lineswithlines

Extras: I put this together as a bit of a puzzle prank. Each stanza actually does have a rhyming word that has been replaced by a not-so-rhyming synonym.

SPOILER ALERT!…

If you haven’t figured them out, here is the key:
moment/time, condolence/pity, listened-to/heard, evening/night, watch/clock, small room/dojo.

I hope you enjoyed that one! —cary