2019 ILX Poetry Competition: Open Division

This morning, upon further thought, I remembered that flouting announced rules is vmic for poets, so any caviling would be ungenerous of us. You're in. I'll post a polling thread in an hour or two.

i knew pretenitence would do the job

Voting for your most-preferred poem may be done on 2019 ILX Poetry Competition: VOTE HERE.

Poets who vote for themselves will be judged in heaven upon a scale of perfect justice, but since all votes are anonymous let's just accept the eventual outcome as being uninfluenced by undue vanity. I'm just hoping there are more total votes than the eleven poets who saw fit to show us their poems. Good luck, y'all.

btw, you have invented a new and valuable word - well done, deems:

Your search - "pretenitence" - did not match any documents.

ack too late to submit - alas. next year i'll do better.

Have to work tomorrow
But will be back here again believe me
Once the barmaid options are exhausted
Back here to fucking decompose

(Aimless opens thread, expecting to find a decomposing calstars. Does not and is relieved.)

I forgot to say thank you to my voter!

And, by the by, via some weird cold clockwork of the stars, Christopher Fairbank ended up reading and recording my poem: https://soundcloud.com/mattpoacher/deer

it was me fwiw

pfft

Thanks imago.