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Juggalo Day

For today’s prompt (optional, as always), I’d like to challenge you to write a triolet. These eight-line poems involve repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme. The repetitions and rhymes can lend themselves to humorous poems, as well as to poems expressing dramatic or sorrowful moods. And sometimes the repetitions can be used in deceptive ways, by splitting the words in a given line into different sentences, and making subtle changes, as in this powerful triolet by Sandra McPherson.

The crowds are thick, the lines are long,
as I push my small body through,
to see Violent J and JJ marching strong;
the crowds are thick, the lines are long.
Juggalos and Juggalettes are tired of wrongs-
we gather in D.C. to protest; who knew?
The crowds are thick, the lines are long;
as I push my small body through.