Rhyme crime by Grant Harbison

I is a bad poet doin’ time for failin’ to rhyme

It don’t be the first time

I been here before for the same damn crime

It don’t be like I is lazy

It’s fixin’ them words to fit that be makin’ me crazy

Judge be sayin’ I’s to blame

And tells me to hang my head in shame

Says, “Write me a rhyme and you better not fail!”

Then sends me down to the county jail

But I been here two weeks and I still ain’t done nothin’

Just been scratchin’ my head and huffin’ and puffin’

Never figured rhymin’ would be so hard

All I ever wanted to be is a bard

Wait a minute

“Guard!”