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When Fred Grows Up

This child's brain will soon be scanned,
trochaic feet are in his head,
a villanelle restricts his pia mater,
rhyme royal talks to him in bed,
the words cat scan delight his senses,
alliterated words are swirling,
onomatopoetic horns are hooting,
sprung rhythmic words are whirling,
cat scan, tunnel ,womb worm
hole, warm rich, dark black
night sky stars start in his head.
simile to exploding firework flack,
metaphorically a bursting bubble,
this is the state of poor Fred's brain,
triolets, terza rima, quatrains,
putting the grey matter under strain.

Deep in the core, surgeons found something worse
the lad is forming a mass of virulent free verse

Elspeth Brown