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Wonder Worm

Faster than a speedy limerick
stronger than a sympathetic ode
sharper than any haiku;
is it a tweet?
is it a sonnet?
is it a overlong epic about personal sex life that no one asked for?
No! Its wonder worm:
a melding of worm, thesaurus and radioactive slug bite
with all the power to write words faster than anyone can say,
able to pen a piece on a prompt
before others have even started to put their thinking caps on.
Mild mannered worm by day,
but a change of glasses later they become
Super worm by night,
patrolling the Underground fighting against dreaded Writer's Block
in the name of art and feasible speech
with all the powers of language that they can muster.
Able to flit from word to word at the turn of a letter
aided by great onomatopoeic sound bites and hash tags,
wrangling prose and poetry from the jaws of uninspired hackneyed cliché drivel
to punch you right in the feels
with imagery stronger than steel.
The name of this superhero is
Wordworm, or wwm to all but his closest friends and allies,
so banal stereotypical predictable pieces beware!
Your time has come and you will be beaten into shape
pushing the envelope in ways hitherto unthought of
spewing lines like its going out of fashion
like superhero amounts from comic books.
This superhero is not coming to any big screen near you anytime soon,
instead you will have to read about his adventures
or indeed write your own if so inclined,
every good superhero has a back story
but with it being a worm,
their back is rather small
meaning their back story is likewise
suffice to say all the shortcuts and plagiarism dregs
have to end up somewhere
and add them to a slug with a taste for plutonium
and you will get a rather wordy concoction,
the type not fit for any page
but thankfully from that slug's bite arose
a hero nobody particularly needed or asked for.
A true worm among heroes.
Written by Viddax (Lord Viddax)
Published
Author's Note
Entry number 19 for the NaPo/GloPoWrimo Competition using the connected days prompt.
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