As long as we're beating up on villanelles--
Villains
There has to be a very special hell
For poets who—from boredom or from spite--
Decide they have to write a villanelle.
For poets who cannot temptation quell
And add to this prosaic sort of blight
There has to be a very special hell.
Who maybe being under someone’s spell
And therefore not aware of what is right
Decide they have to write a villanelle.
There ought to be a deep resounding bell
To toll for those who want to stage this fright
There has to be a very special hell.
There ought to be a prison with a cell
Reserved for those, who being less than bright,
Decide they have to write a villanelle.
There ought to be a way this bagatelle
Is recognized as something mere and slight
There has to be a very special hell
For those who choose to write a villanelle.
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