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Zero chance of everything going well.
But we will certainly have a story to tell.

Yesterday smelled like glass, but there was no storm.
A few shards and splinters did almost no harm.

X-Men are in school to learn what they should.
Maybe they can help - their intentions are good.

Wake up and wish you were somewhere else instead.
Think about coffee, get yourself out of bed.

Voltage fluctuation may disable your device.
Press the reset button - no need to press twice.

Unusual monsters have begun to appear -
not like the ones we know and hold dear.

Tell me again about this plan of ours.                
I think we may have overestimated our powers.

Someone saying now, someone saying not yet.
But how many chances will we get?

Revising the plan does seem the thing to do.
Yes, we may have to revise the revision too.

Quiet, quiet - all you have to do is turn the key.
Once we're inside, leave everything to me.

Prepare and prepare, but some things are chance -
you learn all the steps and they call off the dance.

Over and over, the same and more of the same -
how to get a grip on those who are to blame?

Now is the time, said the doormat to the floor.
Let us rise up and be stepped on no more!

Music that tumbles a wall made of stone -
you don't hear it often, but it is not unknown.
An abecedarian poem in reverse.
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djailledie's avatar
So you like giving you an extra challenge for poetry?