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Write a Sonnet
Any topic, get creative! 14 lines, 10 syllables per line, rhyme scheme of "ABAB CDCD EFEF GG".
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GerardDiLeo in Poetry & Free Verse

Sick Ghosts

Where do the ghosts stay at the hospital

The sick who died without an even chance

The patients who left without remittal

Of diseased parts that pushed them the distance

Of all the ghouls who come to those who fear

There aren't those more fright'ning—to the staff

Who made the mistakes that haunt each career

And leave the trail of death on their behalf

Arithmetic mistakes preclude recount

As when concocting potions meant to heal

These are the blunders making death tolls mount

And guilt that does not pay for lives they steal

The horror tales that spin of wraiths and ghosts

Ignore the places where they're brewed the most