Apple Gone Pear Shaped

a Lai

a tag from William J Spirdione

img via Tenor

This is not a beautiful work — I have no sense of history, nuance, style, grace, subject-matter or repertoire — So I looked up ‘Lai Poetry’ — And Wikipedia just created anxiety; so I went to Lai poetry for dummies 101 (for beginners)
A Lai Poem is (apparently):
History.
The Lai developed in France.
Form.
The features of the Lai are:
9 lines.
Two rhymes, giving the form aabaabaab.
Lines ending with the ‘a’ rhyme are five syllables long.
Lines ending with the ‘b’ rhyme are two syllables long.
Rhyme scheme (where a lower-case letter indicates a rhyme with each line designated by the same lower-case letter):

I hope William doesn’t reprimand me for not taking things seriously! But here goes….

Apple Gone Pear Shaped

Will apple prolong ?

The pricings all wrong

Not fun

Now without a song

It’s pear-shaped oblong

i-pun

Prefer to go long ?

The shares are still strong

Bull run

Yes folks — after the big build up — It’s gone. BUT -there is a song! — For fun!
For a more elegant job please see the Sonneteer’s version: Smoke Across this Land