Rule And Regulations Of Aardvark Poetry Poem by Steve Downes

Never begin a poem with the words
‘And Suddenly …’
Or
‘Aardvark’
Or
‘Because’
Why? I asked my would-be-mentor
in my childish innocence
“Because it’s the rules! ' he barked.

*

“What way will I start it? ”
asked the extremely bored boy
My voice
that now of authority
replied “Try Aardvark.”
“Why? ”
“Why not! ” I whispered
The boy
slightly befuddled and curious
scrawled on his school copybook
‘A Poem
Aardvark …..’ he began to think in creativity