On a Recent Wordle
Melissa Balmain

(with a little help from A.E. Stallings)

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The answer was UNION, but Wordle Bot said

A lot of us gambled on ONION instead.

Whichever we went with, it’s obvious why:

We were thinking about what’s been making us cry.

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Melissa’s notes: ​​“I love it when a poem helps validate the ridiculous amount of time I spend on NY Times puzzles. Equally validating: the discovery that many poets I admire are hooked as well — which makes sense, given that writing poems in form does seem to tap the same part of the brain as solving Wordle, or the Crossword, or the Spelling Bee, or Connections, or Strands, or… [hangs head in shame at magnitude of addiction].“

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Melissa Balmain edits Light, North America’s longest-running journal of comic verse. Her latest book of poetry is Satan Talks to His Therapist (Paul Dry Books). melissabalmain.com

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