Irregular Villanelle, not for a contest
Since rhymes can be so constraining, I worked the ends with near rhymes or sounds.
Set your scowl in stone; immovable neck. Lace an ornate pearl necklace around throat. You stand at a cold precipice, a rock. A snake with slinky-bones, writhing, not slack, And fangs of gold - they’re not nearly a threat. Set your scowl in stone; immovable neck. Those pearly teeth squeeze, kiss with velvet peck; Constricts like a boa with bruised forget. You stand at a cold precipice, a rock. Let down your gargoyle guard, for not a sec. Why’d you set paper mâché, were you provoked? Set your scowl in stone; immovable neck. Spectacular species, like grunting hock, And won’t even say boo, like bully ghost. You stand at a cold precipice, a rock. Unconscionable, a solid train wreck; Ancestors and posterity revolt. Set your scowl in stone; immovable neck. You stand at a cold precipice, a rock.
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