How To Align a Fine Line

HOW TO ALIGN A FINE LINE Who can resist the pull of such a competition Where the rules are so clear, But the topic is like sex in the 60s revolution: Filled with pitfalls but (yes, it was) - freer Similar to the Argentine gaucho named Bruno Who said well there’s one thing I do know - Slang is fine, Intentional misspellings are divine, But a llama is numero uno. And whose “who’s” is in question? Not mine! Hey, they’re writing “their” over there When it oughta be “they’re”.. . . Ok, Fine! The effect of all this is to affect my degree of care (And to effect a change in all poets, I hope). Since mine is not a KNOCK-OUT of a poem And I am certainly no dope Nor am I a gnome from Nome or even Chomsky Noam I hesitate to use the non-existent Cringer word “irregardless” regardless Of the consequences extant, Or in future years countless. ……………………………………… Written by a nameless, talentless poet For Nancy Jones’s Contest “Fine Line”