Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
You’re in the army now
you’re not behind the plow
you’ll never get rich
by digging a ditch
you’re in the army now.
Isham Jones 1917
You may have abandoned the ditch,
but here’s the saddening hitch,
you’ll still be digging deep -
enough to make you weep;
take heed of the date up there,
‘twas a year that you may be aware,
must have come as a terrible wrench
that the ditch had become a trench.
Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 10.23.23
Prompt: Ditch.
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