Dear Readers,
Our humble little Open-Source Poetry experiment continues, and it’s clear that you’ve all been enjoying this opportunity to collaborate. It’s because of your efforts that a wonderful prickly new poem is being born, and we love it!
Seriously, we’re floored by the contributions we’ve received so far. So many of them! And so creative! Thank you so much for playing with us. We hope you enjoy the line we’ve chosen. It was written by none other than artsychick82. Your contribution was precisely what we needed!
So, to everyone else, welcome to the next round! We can’t wait to be surprised by your unexpected word wizardry. We can’t wait to have our socks knocked off then knocked back on again! Go nuts, Dear Readers! Bristle! Crackle with invention! Buzz!
Oh, and for those that require a little refresher of how this all works…
1) We provide the next line of the poem.
2) You write the following line.
3) You submit your line via the comments section of this very post.
4) We pick the line we like most and add it to the poem.
5) We publish every line to date in a follow-up post.
6) Steps 1-5 are repeated until we have a masterpiece!
Let’s keep the madness going!
What if I said sorry for saying sorry all the time?
Or should I just give you a baby porcupine?
Alas, it will be one and the same outcome
Saying sorry results with quills in your bum
From now on I will change my approach 
by TETIANA ALEKSINA, TONY SINGLE, PHOENIX RISEN & ARTSYCHICK82
© All rights reserved 2017
unbolt me 
With life lessons of do’s and don’t’s till your heart I encroach
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‘Sorry’ leaves you numb and this dumbass sounding gauche,
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Nice one! Thanks for your contribution! 😀
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From now on I will change my approach,
I will try to kill the problem from its source.
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Nice one! Thanks for playing! 😀
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Never again mixing whole milk in my oats
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Good advice for any moderate society really. Hee hee! 😉
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For if not I will shurlely feel a pain in my croach.
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Laughing so hard over this one! I see what you did there! 😉
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But first I must cover my ears for the impending reproach.
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Nice one, Hadrian. Thank you for contributing! 😀
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and on my lapel wear an I’m Sorry broach
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Good tactic! Hee hee! 😛
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What if instead I gave you a baby cockroach?
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Oh my god! Two suggestions of baby cockroaches so far! I wonder if we’ll get more? 😛
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Oops sorry! Didn’t notice the previous comments 😅
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Hee hee! No, it’s okay! I think it’s really cool when different peeps think of the same thing. It shows that great minds think alike! 😀
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Yes. I nominate this line. And if you don’t publish this one, I’ll mail you 100 cockroaches in your fan mail.
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Damn. We’d better move house then… 😛
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Releasing my revealing fear of reproach
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Thanks for playing! 😀
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Or should I just give you just a baby cockroach
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Hee hee! That’s a great contribution, Anita. Thank you! 😛
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Anytime Tony 😇
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