Before the SLAM
Expectation of the night, who was ready for the fight? The crowd hushed and the lights turned down; (he didn't want to be called a clown). Nervous anticipation / some constipation - but in the end the show, invariably, inevitably, irrefutably, irrationally (?) must go on.
It was time for the poetry SLAM.
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Your story about a Poetry Slam was also poetic. That was a nice touch 👍!