08-19-2021, 06:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2021, 06:37 AM by Tiger the Lion.)
Thanks for this one, CRNDLSM. This was a simple but really flexible prompt. I must have written a dozen different ideas. Was fun to break the rules and ignore the time limit. I'm replying waaaaay past my 1 hour time limit because I couldn't quite decide which poem was silliest. I'm gonna post the one that most made me laugh at myself laughing at myself.
Augusta '27
Before we took
our name back
from The Masters,
Jackie used to run
with the middle of the pack;
a handicap approaching zero.
Since the long overdue
introduction of our non-binary tees,
they've truly reinvented themself,
consistently coming in
well,
under par.
P.S. The most fun I had writing this came from trying to find any APP on earth that recognized "themself" as a word. Nope. Squiggly red line under it every time.
I don't imagine many College professors with the guts to mark it as a spelling mistake on a term paper. 
Augusta '27
Before we took
our name back
from The Masters,
Jackie used to run
with the middle of the pack;
a handicap approaching zero.
Since the long overdue
introduction of our non-binary tees,
they've truly reinvented themself,
consistently coming in
well,
under par.
P.S. The most fun I had writing this came from trying to find any APP on earth that recognized "themself" as a word. Nope. Squiggly red line under it every time.
I don't imagine many College professors with the guts to mark it as a spelling mistake on a term paper.