A sestina is a poem of six stanzas with six lines each and the same six words at the end of each line. The last stanza is three lines with two of the words in each line. Here is my sestina:
I have to tell you about how I’m awesome.
One day I went out
To eat at this restaurant with a girl and a dude.
She was saying that I should date this guy.
“He sees me as just a friend,”
I said. “But if he asked me out-wow.”
Yeah, if I dated a guy like that-wow.
He’s got a great sense of humor and is clearly awesome.
We actually met through a friend
When he randomly stopped by during a night out.
If he was a little chubbier he’d be my ideal guy.
For the moment I just think he’s a cool dude.
Since he isn’t into me, I’m on the search for another dude.
He should be nerdy, but not into W.O.W.
That’s when they become a video game and stop being a guy.
They think that only their game is awesome.
If their girl doesn’t like it, they cast her out.
No, my nerdy one should be a little more than a friend.
Boy, I would be a great girlfriend.
I’m always laughing with a sense of humor like a dude
Who thinks it’s all funny, even when others are grossed out.
Like when Steve Carell says “Wow,
This is graphic” in the 40-Year-Old Virgin, which was an awesome
Movie. It’s got Paul Rudd in it. I love that guy.
Let’s talk about food with this hypothetical guy.
He should like Asian food, my friend.
Why? Because Asian food is awesome.
I ate it growing up in Hawaii, dude.
You would not believe how much they eat there, like wow.
So this date and I would eat that when we go out.
We don’t have to go out.
I can just be a girl and him a guy.
I don’t have to have a man who makes the ladies say “wow.”
If you are my friend,
And chubby, and a dude,
Ask me on a date. I promise it would be awesome.
Anyway, dude. You don’t have to ask me out.
I’m fine with just being a friend to a really cool guy like you.
Wait? What? Now? Wow. That’d be awesome.
