Villanelle: Just Write It!

When you write, don’t worry about saving face.
All your embarrassing experiences are grist for your hopper.
There are worse things than being a literary disgrace.

You can struggle every morning at a frenzied pace
scribbling confessions that may be deemed improper,
when you don’t worry about saving face.

You can write about the time you kept your ace
when the queen was on the board, and you let another take her.
There are worse things than being a literary disgrace.

So you want a part in Arsenic and Old Lace?
So you put bird seed in the popcorn popper?
So don’t you worry about saving face!

And you’ll never disappear without a trace
if you get to be known as the world’s biggest moper.
That's the advantage of being a literary disgrace.

And maybe you will win the poet race

and be considered really super-duper,
if you don’t worry about saving face.
There are worse things than being a literary disgrace.