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The 3 Scenarios Part III

MsRockyJackson
Dangerous Mind
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Poetry Contest

Write one out of the three chosen scenarios
Like the last scenario competitions you basically have to chose and write one out of the three scenarios.

The scenarios:
1#: Your hot female/male next door neighbor is constantly seducing, but you're married so you politely turn them down. However they are too obsessed to get over you and in the middle of the night try to kill you and your lover.

2#: Write about having a nervous breakdown while working at a fast food joint and doing things that are ( hilariously) bad and crazy

3#: You adopt a cute big dog from the animal shelter without knowing your dog is also half
demon and is secretly plotting on killing you, but ends up befriending you instead

Rules:
~ Pick only one scenario to write about!!!
~ It can be as long as you want
~ Be creative
~ Please title the entry with which number scenario you picked

Jade-Pandora
jade tiger
Tyrant of Words
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Scenario 2#: Write about having a nervous breakdown while working at a fast food joint and doing things that are ( hilariously) bad and crazy
:


TEMPTATION  (#2)

I worked so hard as manager & clerk,
I never thought I'd sink so low as this.
I used to take such pride in all my work
But then one day I served a cup of piss.

I know I know, they ask me to this day
When visiting me in the psycho ward,
"How could you do what you did in that way?"
I often say I must've gotten bored.

Was flipping burgers when I would unwind
When everybody ran away and hid,
Throughout that day that made me loose my mind
Which led up to the crazy things I did.

Like when on Special Friday's drive-thru days
I'd go out back and dumpster-dive a treat.
The cook to stir the contents in a glaze
And grind up feral cats to use as meat.

And don't you be surprised what else I served
For all the patrons who would come to eat.
Imagine cajon shrimp but on a curve;
With empty tails and stuffed with chopped pig's feet.

I bet your mouth is watering right now,
You're waiting to find out what's the entrée.
What would you say to sweetbreads from a cow
With hamster pellet-garnished lime sorbet?

Well never mind, I've only just begun.
The press will never understand my view.
For when it comes to fixing chili buns
The world is ready, how may I tempt you?

EStar
Twisted Dreamer
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Scenario #1: Your hot female/male next door neighbor is constantly seducing, but you're married so you politely turn them down. However they are too obsessed to get over you and in the middle of the night try to kill you and your lover.

Title: Mark my words, I'm a faithful woman

Your name was Mark
And Mark my words, You were fine.
And you knew it too, of course you did.
People like you always know when they're divine.

And oh I've never been a sinner
But you made me come close
When you came close to me
But unfortunately, I had to disclose
I was married.

You still tried
You were persistent as hell
Always coming over day and night
(To "make sure I was well")
But, really, you liked the idea that you might
One day catch me with clothing askew
I'm not stupid, I knew
But I let it continue.

Why?
Maybe I liked the attention,
The way your eyes would roam my frame
I haven't felt so desired since I changed my last name.

But eventually, enough was enough
When you planted a kiss on my lips
And I had to push you away,
Because I was a good, faithful woman
And you were driving me to sin.
So I decided to never again let you in
My home.

I worried something was wrong when your daily visits ceased
After a month of their steady increase
Radio silence was concerning.

But I was determined to put you out of my head, you see?
So I didn't put any thought into where you might be,
Which proved to be a mistake.

My husband loved to hold me tight
So when I turned in for the night,
Months after you'd seemed to give up on your chase,
I thought nothing when a hand touched my waist.
Until instead of a kiss,
Placed upon the lace
Collar of my nightgown
(Where he liked to press his face)
Something else on my chest laid
something hard and cold,
Something like a blade.
I turned to look you in the eyes
Wondering how you'd dispatched my husband without my hearing his cries
Then with a kiss as you let me depart,
You drove cold steel into my heart.

(I don't know if you intended for this to end up humourous in the end or not, but I just went where my inspiration took me which was...here, in non-humour land.)

MsRockyJackson
Dangerous Mind
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Forum Posts: 318

That was an awesome entry estar and I didn't care how you end it just as long as it followed the rules.
The ending was intense by the way :)

EStar
Twisted Dreamer
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Joined 21st July 2016
Forum Posts: 118

Thank you very much, MsRockyJackson. I appreciate your feedback on the ending, I had the last two lines running in the back of my head since the beginning of the last verse(? Is that what it's called?) of the poem and I was determined to use them, so I'm glad someone else is fond of them! wonderful prompt, by the way, something about it just sparked the creative beast in me!

MadameLavender
Guardian of Shadows
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Hello--I can't send this into vote--too few participants and the website software won't let it go through.  Can you try to assign a winner, and if you get the same error, let me know and we can see if the Webmiss can assign the trophy?  Thanks!

MsRockyJackson
Dangerous Mind
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Joined 1st July 2014
Forum Posts: 318

Well that's why I put up the voting thing instead of picking because I thought it would save me the trouble of leaving the comp and disappointing those who participated in this by not giving a person a trophy,
But luckily it worked out.

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