First Prize

Write some lines that make no sense, Switch from present to past tense, Make readers feel they must be dense, While flunkies rush to your defense. Mutilate your metaphors, Logic left on foreign shores, Use some words you can't define, (Did you look them up online?) How else but silent can eyes close? How thickly spread is your pathos! Be sure to smother any rhyme, Melodious meter made a crime. And though we're loath to criticize, We're confounded how you won first prize.