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The Beast Known as Sestina By Adam Giurlando

It begins with an S and ends with an A but really all of it is awful I can (and will) give you 39 lines of why I find them most horrid Whenever I see this word it fills my heart with Dread For I know this horrid thing will consume my night with writing I won’t lie poetry is not my cup of tea, but this evil form, it fills my heart with misery I speak of course of the great beast itself the Horrible Sestina

I pray every night I will be free of the sestina Even the thought of its foul task makes my mind turn awful I fear I will be consumed by its dark misery But alas here you find me composing this thing I find so horrid Up at 10 pm unwillingly finishing its writing my teacher, he feels oh so different, his love of the sestina is the opposite of my dread

But as this beast seems to feed on my dread As more thoughts of hate fill my head the sestina, it only grows as my mind fuels its writing My hate gives birth to the thing I find most awful This monster child that many find so horrid My teacher’s attraction to the beast I will never grasp. I have only seen it cause misery

And this beast it continues to grow off of my misery its length compounding with my growing dread As I struggle with the creation of lines oh so horrid It mocks me with its growth this evil sestina Its laugh, the taps on my keyboard, I find the sound so awful Yet I must finish the making of the beast, its growth spurred by my awful writing

As I continue this late night write The beast continues to grow, its tendrils evolving with my misery Its form taking shape in a way I see as most awful as I try to squeeze together the last few lines in with my dread My ideas, feelings, emotions, all victims of the evil sestina which I brought to fruition because of the assignment I find so horrid Its form taken shape, my creation is truly horrid born through my writing this terrifying monster sestina its creation, perhaps a mistake, will most likely bring my grade misery Its form sapping my mind of ideas and replacing them with dread but correct the form was and and as much as I hate it, its not awful

This sestina I have born is truly a monster that fills me with dread but my monster it is and horrid as they may be I will face its consequences, even if awful Now I may sleep in my misery for I’m sure this monster will soon again plague my writing