Exceptional A Pantoum for Potlatch Poetry How to Concuss Yourself by damommy

If you wish yourself to concuss, rise up with the speed of a youth. Those near will make such a fuss. ‘cause it shows you’re long in the tooth.   Rise up with the speed of a youth, losing balance will sure do the trick, ‘cause it shows you’re long in the tooth, when you hit the floor like a brick.   Losing balance will sure do the trick to attract all attention around. When you hit the floor like a brick, you notice how close is the ground.   To attract all attention around, just teeter and totter a bit. You notice how close is the ground? Try falling face-first when you hit.   Just teeter and totter a bit, those near will make such a fuss. Try falling face-first when you hit, if you wish yourself to concuss.   Recognized Author Notes This has happened to me. Once, falling face-first, and again when I fell backwards. Sorry I went past the number limit of lines. The pantoum made me do it. lol The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA. The design is simple: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 (repeat of line 2) Line 6 Line 7 (repeat of line 4) Line 8 Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last. Last stanza: Line 2 of previous stanza Line 3 of first stanza Line 4 of previous stanza Line 1 of first stanza

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