ode to friday night

I am ecstatically happy that it is Friday night. Like the rest of the world that has a work week of Monday through Friday, I feel the relief of time to recuperate. For me personally, there's a bit of an adrenaline kick on Friday afternoons that I could have used Tuesday midday, but I'll take it however I can get it. It feels great.

To celebrate this joyous occasion, I'll attempt to write an ode to Friday night --an actual ode on an actual Friday night. If you are unfamiliar, an ode is a formal poetic structure. It sounds like I know what I'm talking about, but I really don't. That's why we have Wikipedia, right? 

According to Wikipedia (which is never ever wrong), the most common rhyme scheme for the ode in English is ABABCDECDE. It's also apparently written in iambs most of the time, too (ba-DUM). Since I never ever question anything I read on the Internet, and since it's Friday night so who cares if it's right or not, we're going to go with it, people. If you have a problem with this approach or have more information than Wikipedia, please keep it to yourself --I'm relaxing here.

Okay, so any ode to Friday night must contain the following references: Friday night, something naughty. That's about all that needs to be there, really.

So, without further adieu, let's try it. In iambic tetrameter. And a-one, and a-two:



ODE TO FRIDAY NIGHT

Oh, Friday night! Let's get it on!
Can't tell you how much you've been missed.
The working week has up and gone --
To celebrate, let's go get pissed! 

If Monday's chaste, and Tuesday's pure,
And Wednesday's sweet and innocent,
And Thursday's not for the depraved,
I'm glad you're here --and that's for sure.

Let's make sure all the money's spent
On deviance, and nothing's saved!



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That should just about do it! Keats is rolling over in his grave, no doubt. 

Enjoy your Friday night (unless you're reading this on a different night, in which case, hold on! Friday's coming!).

[Update: It's Friday night again, in a new era. Friday night & poetry mean more than ever now. Nothing wrong with enjoying either. Take care of yourselves.]