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The Bad Girl's Bracelets
Put on the bracelets, you common criminal!
That speeding ticket you forgot to pay
Has come home like a chicken to roost
Sitting like a caged bird in the roost
Not wanting to remain a criminal
She waited for her man to come and pay
Later, the judge told her the fine to pay
He thought her more a dizzy bird who left her senses in her roost
Than an actual, bona fide criminal
Adjudged not much of a criminal, she paid and went home to roost
To Cie
With love from Tempest
Notes:
Back in 1986, our own Real Cie forgot to pay for a speeding ticket and ended up in jail.
A little over an hour ago, Cie contacted her erstwhile team, asking "how the hell do we write a tritina that includes bracelets?"
Ask and ye shall receive, Dahling!
Thank you for being such a sport. I never imagined you'd actually agree to it's publication!
Prompts Used:
Our (optional) prompt for Day Seven comes to us from Gloria Gonsalves, who challenges us all to write a tritina. The tritina is a shorter cousin to the sestina, involving three, three-line stanzas, and a final concluding line. Three “end words” are used to conclude the lines of each stanza, in a set pattern of ABC, CAB, BCA, and all three end words appear together in the final line.
Bracelets
