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Alligator Alcatraz Prison Trimericc

Alligator Alcatraz Prison Trimeric

alligator Alcatraz prison
newest American gulags
For now, just illegal immigrants
Perhaps for dissidents coming soon

alligator Alcatraz prison
Now open in the Everglades
Surrounded by alligators

Newest American gulags
Many more are being built
not-so-secret concentration camps

Perhaps for dissidents coming soon
Perhaps I will see you in the camp
for writing this poem?

The Trimeric is a thirteen-line poem invented by Dr. Charles A. Stone. The first stanza has four lines, and the following three stanzas have three lines apiece, with the first line of each repeating the second, third, and fourth lines of the first stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/4736-forms-unique-to-poetic-bloomings/#tr...

1. a poem in 13 lines, made up of a quatrain followed by 3 tercets.
2. meter at the discretion of the poet.
3. rhyme at the discretion of the poet.
4. composed with a tumbling refrain, each line (with the exception of L1) of the first stanza taking its turn as the first line of the following respective stanzas. L2 of S1 is L1 of S2. L3 of S1 is L1 of S3 and finally L4 of S1 is L1 of S4.