Want To Buy: a companion, maybe a friend as well,
will entertain bids up to 180g per annum.
Please Send Tell.
Looking For Group: to piece together this shell,
this life of pixels and processors and self-induced delirium.
Want To Buy: certainty, maybe a friend as well.
Want To Trade: an empty space for something less ethereal,
a whiff of hydrogen, a drop of oxygen, flecks of sodium.
Please Send Tell.
Looking For a Lover: will settle
for marginal understanding, or some disappointing medium.
Want To Buy: a brother, maybe a friend as well.
Want To Sell: not the self, but the collagen fibers of the cells,
the neurons, the arteries, leaving just the worthless sum.
Please Sent Tell.
Looking For Anyone: another body in this empty hell,
someone to see, if only tangentially, through pseudo-love, and pseudo-hate, and all this pseudo- pandemonium.
Want To Buy: an anchor, maybe a friend as well,
Please Send Tell.
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PS Most exchanges in World of Warcraft on public chat channels are heavily abbreviated: LFG for "looking for group", WTB for "want to buy", and PST for "please send tell", a tell being a private message also referred to as a "whisper". Most conversation on public channels consists of twelve year olds being annoying and terse messages beginning with "LFG", "WTB" or whatever, followed by the activity or item in question.
2 comments:
Is this...a WoW Villanelle? Intriguing. I was surprised by how well it worked. I like it a Lot. Excellent, wonderful, fun repetition of the ending lines. The only stanza I didn't like entirely was the fourth. It feels a like erudite, but doesn't add much. It's not pulling its weight. I know that villanelles demand form so you can't just yank it out, but I feel like it can do more for the piece.
Excellent. I shall beat it into obedience. Or something. And thanks, for the advice.
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