Poetry
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This story was partially inspired by an idea submitted by Sir MIDNIGHT
I have 6 reviews already! I'm so happy. My loyal fans have inspired me! (You guys don't have to be my loyal fans if you don't want; I've just always wanted to say that)
Thought you guys might like a nice valentines day edition to the story, even though it's not near valentines day in the story for Reno it is here! So enjoy guys
Sorry it took me so long to update, I was cooking up ideas MUHAHAHA…haha… On that note, here's the story:
After along night with many bottles of alcohol Reno awoke in his apartment. The clock read 7am. 'Well at least I'm not late yet' Reno thought as he sat up in his bed. He immediately fell backwards and regretted getting up so fast. It felt like someone was shooting him in the back of the head.
"Damn... fucking hangovers…" He grumbled
He stood up slowly as to not aggravate his head and he walked groggily to his bathroom to take a quick shower. He turned the water on and stripped out of his boxers. The warm water from the shower seemed to sooth his head, along with the scent of his strawberry shampoo. He was determined to not be over an hour late for work that day so he got out of the shower quickly and prepared for the long task of doing his hair. With only a towel wrapped around his waist, he began with the blow dryer. He pulled his comb through the back part of his hair as he blasted it with heat, making it impossibly straight. He proceeded to dry the top part of his hair which proved to be much easier because of how much shorter it was. After that task was over, He reached into his cabinet and grabbed a bunch of gel. He carefully spiked the front parts of his bangs up so they wouldn't hang in his face. He worked with the gel until his hair was perfectly in place. Satisfied with his hair he left his bathroom and grabbed his work uniform. He got dressed and was only now around 10 minutes late. He pulled on his goggles and left for work.
He shuffled into his office and went straight to the secretary. She looked up at him like she had just seen some holy phenomenon.
"Mr. Reno sir, your here very early today, I'm surprised." She said and she smiled.
'It's kind of funny that I can come in 30 minutes late and people will praise me like I'm here 2 hours early.' Reno thought. He quickly turned his attention back to the secretary.
"I was wondering if you had some Tylenol or something?" He asked. She just smirked at him and pulled out a bag that had a label on it reading 'Reno's painkillers' It wasn't new to anyone that Reno came into work at least 3 times a week with a hangover and all the secretary's in the building have learned to have some Advil or something stashed away for him.
"Here you are." she said and she handed him 2 tablets and bottle of water.
"Thanks, Yo" He said and he walked off to his office.
He walked in the room to see Tseng had a new writing assignment waiting for him on his desk.
"Fuck I don't need this shit today yo" He grumbled as he sat down at his desk and took the pills.
He put his elbow on his desk and rested his head on his hand while he flipped open the folder that would hold his assignment.
Good morning Reno, I hope you are feeling well today. Here is your assignment. I hope you like it, I thought of this one all by myself, It might require some extra research but I know your up to the challenge.
-Tseng
Tseng had decided to write Reno a little note on top of his assignment just to irritate him. Reno proceeded on down the page and read the assignment.
You are being placed in a hypothetical situation. Your wife has asked you to write her 5 poems for Valentines Day. She wants a Haiku, an acrostic poem, a cinquain, a third eye poem and a limerick. Remember these poems are for your wife on Valentines Day so make sure you make them nice.
"God damn it…I hate poetry!" Reno said in a defeated manor. "I'm to tired to deal with this shit today…" He mumbled and just then he realized what Tseng had meant by extra research. "Fuck! I don't know what any of those poems are!"
He turned to his computer and started to search the different types of poems. He could feel the pills starting to kick in because he couldn't hear his pulse pounding into his head any more. He felt sleep taking over now that the pain was subsiding and he laid his head down on his desk.
'Knock knock knock'
A loud knocking sounded at Reno's door and jolted him from his sleep. He jumped up so quickly that he fell off of his chair.
"Umphh…Coming…" He said as he made his way over to his door. He opened it to reveal Rude standing there with food.
"Oh man Rude you brought me food! You're the best yo!" he moved so Rude could come sit in his office. Instead he just handed Reno the sandwich and turned to leave. Reno caught him by the arm and turned him back around.
"Rude where are you going! I'm bored as hell, can you just come in here for a second."
"I guess so, just don't jump me or anything you look like your high" Rude said as he made his way into Reno's office.
"Nah I was just sleeping…"
Rude rolled his eyes. He sat down at Reno's desk and looked over the reading assignment he had left lying there.
"So this is the assignment Tseng's got you doing huh?" Asked Rude, as he looked it over once more.
"Yha it's hell man, today he's got me writing fucking poetry!"
Rude couldn't stifle a small chuckle and it escaped from his lips a bit to loud.
"Shut up yo" Reno said and he smacked him playfully in the arm. "It's not funny" Reno sulked.
"Well he gave you the easiest kinds of poems by the looks of it, at least he didn't assign you a ballad or something"
"A ballad…" Reno looked confused as he stared at Rude "Rude how do you…why do…do you…do you write poems?" Reno raised his eyebrow and waited for a response.
Rude's skin was dark but you couldn't miss the blush that washed over his face.
"Oh my god man, you do!" Reno started laughing
"I'm leaving…" muttered Rude as he got up and started towards the door.
"No don't leave…I'm sorry, I just never thought you would be the kind of person to…never mind. Umm do you think you could help me out for a second…" Asked Reno
"'Cause you saw how he listed all of those poems, and well I don't even know what they are…do you think you could write down their meanings for me?" Reno asked and he gave Rude one of the cutest puppy dog faces that was humanly possible.
Rude rolled his eyes at Reno's attempt at a pout-ish puppy dog face and he picked up a piece of paper and a pen.
"I'll write them down for you so you wont forget what I said as soon as I leave the room" Said Rude and he began to write down the basic structure of the poems that Reno needed to complete.
Reno was even more shocked than before that Rude knew the structures of the poems but was grateful that this would save him from having to waist an hour or so finding accurate stuff on the internet.
Rude finished and stuck the note to Reno's forehead.
"Thanks Rude you're the greatest yo!" and Reno pulled Rude into a hug, which made Rude, feel a little awkward. Reno just looked up at him and smiled. Rude turned to leave the office.
"Don't waist anymore of your day sleeping or else your going to be here all night" Rude scolded, and with that he turned and left the room.
'What is he, my dad!' thought Reno.
He removed the note from his forehead and read what Rude had written about the first poem; the Haiku.
Haiku is Japanese poetry that reflects on nature and feelings. You use your observation skills to write what you see in a new or different way. The structure goes 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables. Pick an object or a single subject to write your Haiku about.
Just as Reno was about to start writing he heard some yelling coming from outside of his office. He got up to see what was happening. He remembered that today there was a school coming to the company on a field trip. He stepped outside of his door and saw a group of 4 teenage boys. Before he has time to react they whipped water balloons at him. He retreated back into his office muttering every profanity in his vocabulary and he sat back down at his desk.
"Fucking kids yo! Now I have to fucking re do my fucking hair! It takes forever and I don't have time for this shit."
He waited a couple of minutes and when he was sure they were gone he stepped outside. It's not like Reno to hide from kids but he knew if he had seen them again they would have been dead, and Tseng wouldn't be too happy about Reno killing some kids inside of the building. Reno slowly made his way to the bathroom ignoring all the stares from his co-workers. His hair was all wet and it was hanging in front of his face almost obscuring his vision but not quite. Rude was the only one who had ever seen him hair un-spiked. Well not anymore.
Just as he was rounding the corner to the bathroom he bumped right into Tseng who looked quite startled.
"Reno, are you okay?" He asked
"Yes" Reno hissed. He was close to killing anyone who got in his way now and Tseng was the last person he would have wanted to run into.
"Alright then" Instead of moving aside Tseng decided this would be a good time to talk. Which it certainly wasn't.
"So how is that assignment going Reno, it's nice isn't it? I always had a soft spot of poetry," Tseng mocked. You could see the rage building up in Reno's eyes as he glared at him. Tseng ignored this.
"Make sure it's finished by the end of the day Reno." And with that he walked off.
Reno was steaming mad and he made his way to the bathroom.
He dried his hair and put more gel into it. When he was finally happy with how it looked he left the bathroom and made his way back to his office, shooting daggers at anyone who as much as looked at him. He was seriously pissed off now and he just wanted to get the stupid assignment over with. But his anger quickly faded and was replaced with an amusing thought. 'Tseng said he liked poetry, jokingly or not I'm gonna' make him like it' Thought Reno.
He sat down and begun his Haiku which was titled Love
'ok so 5 7 5' Reno thought and he begun to sound out the syllables of many words. He eventually came up with something that went like this:
Power turns me on
I melt when you look at me
Love is in the air
"That should be good enough" Reno muttered. He wrote it down on a post it note and put a smiley face at the ending and a heart encircling the whole thing. He went on and looked at the next poem description that Rude had written for him.
Cinquain: Cinquain's have five lines
Line 1: Title (noun) - 1 word
Line 2: Description - 2 words
Line 3: Action - 3 words
Line 4: Feeling (phrase) - 4 words
Line 5: Title (synonym for the title) 1-2 words.
'Hmm this shouldn't be to hard this is going to be very fun.' He thought and he couldn't help but smirk He began to write his poem.
Tseng
Strong, sexy
Makes me hard (Reno's A/N that's an action right…heh…)
Powerful, Turns me on
A God
'That's very good haha' Thought Reno, and again he wrote it down on a separate post it note and set it aside with the other poem.
Reno started eating the food that Rude had brought him for lunch; he seemed to have forgotten about it.
He felt his medicine starting to wear off and his head was still killing him so he walked over to his closet and inserted a quarter into what looked like a gumball machine. But it was actually filled with Advil. They trusted him enough not to overdose so the company had it installed for him. It's a good thing he's one of the best Turks or they wouldn't have put up with his constant hangovers and injuries that he gets from making smart ass sarcastic remarks at everyone and just fire his ass.
"Okay, onto the next one…"
Acrostic: In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word.
The word often is the subject of the poem.
'Hmm that doesn't seem to hard either…"
Tall
Sexy and seductive
Erotic
Nice to look at
Gorgeous and glamorous
Reno read the poem back to himself and fell on the ground laughing hysterically. Elena had been passing by his office on her way to hers and stopped when she hard Reno's uncontrollable laughter. She turned and knocked on his door.
Reno immediately stopped laughing and went to open his door.
"Heh heh…Elena what are you doing here?" He asked
"Well I was walking to my office and I heard you laughing your head off. I decided to find out what you think is so funny, so spill, what have you been doing in here." She said. He knew she wasn't going to stop interrogating him until he told her everything so he decided to just give in a tell her.
"All right fine, well see Tseng assigned me this poetry assignment and now I have to write all these fucking poems. And so I decided to get back at him and I'm writing all of the poems but I'm gonna give them to him throughout the day and say there from a secret admirer."
By this point Rude had stopped to stand in Reno's doorway and listen to his weird plan. And so Reno continued.
"And I wanna see how long it will take him to figure out that it was me sending him all those poems. He's being an asshole making me do all this stuff so he deserves it" Reno stated like it was obvious and completely normal for him to do something like this.
Elena and Rude just stared at him like he was completely insane.
"Reno you can't do that! How do you know he wont get all pissed off and fire you!"
"Your starting to sound like you would care if he got fired Elena" Said Rude.
"No I wouldn't! I just don't want Tseng to get all mad and assign us extra work or something"
"I think you don't want him to get angry for other reasons" Stated Rude.
Elena's face went a deep shade of red. "You know what I should just tell him you're up to something right now!" She yelled
"But don't you think It would be funny to see what Tseng would do" Asked Reno, but his voice was easily drowned out by the yelling of his 2 co-workers.
"You know seeing my mommy and my daddy fight like this is causing me psychological harm" Reno yelled sarcastically.
They both just turned to him and gave him a death glare.
"Chill out yo, I was only kidding. Elena just don't tell him okay it'll be me who gets in shit If he gets mad anyways, and I'm used to it so just go back to whatever you were doing and leave me alone, this is really none of your business anyways." Reno said.
Elena looked at him and just walked out. Rude followed behind her but didn't forget to flash Reno a look that said you better watch yourself.
Reno turned back to his desk and proceeded to write the next poem.
A third eye poem: The Third Eye poem tells about things that might go unnoticed and are improbable or impossible to see with regular eyesight. The Third Eye knows what is really happening. Ex.The third eye notices when you're supposed to be doing your homework, and you're listening to music.
'O this should be good' Reno thought.
The third eye notices when Elena comes out of Tseng's office with her hair all messed up.
The third eye notices the white stains on the carpet in Elena's office.
The third eye hears the noises coming from down the hall when Tseng has had a stressful day.
The third eye notices how beautiful Tseng can look when his cheeks are all flustered.
The third eye notices how silky and smooth Tseng's hair is
The third eye notices how Tseng doesn't know it exists.
"Haha" Reno chuckled and wrote it down on a post it note.
'On to the last one' He thought.
A limerick: A limerick has five lines.
The last word in lines one, two, and five rhymes.
The last words of lines three and four rhyme.
A limerick has to have a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
U S U U S U U S
U S U U S U U S
U S U U S
U S U U S
U S U U S U U S
I lay in the emergency room after I've just been shot
Staring at him from afar thinking 'wow he's hot'
He walked up to me and gave me a kiss
And for that minute is was lost in sweet bliss
But it was all just a dream and eventually I just forgot
'Hmm I don't know if that makes a lot of sense but that's okay I was never good with rhymes.'
"Time to go deliver one of these heh heh heh"
He took the first post it note and cut it into a heart shape enclosing the poem, he signed the bottom 'from your secret admirer' with his left hand to disguise his handwriting. He stood up and went to find Tseng.
TO BE CONTINUED MUHAHAHA!
I know this was wayyy to long! I appologise! Hope you guys like it! I'll try to update a.s.a.p don't give up on me now! PLEASE REVIEW
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