Here you go, Koscielny. I wrote you a dang sestina. I used a random word generator to choose my six words, which are:
A) suspicion
B) tea
C) burying
D) bottom
E) estate
F) insisting
So here you go. Years late, and generally unintelligible, because sestinas are awkward and horrible. Hope you're happy.
The Downfall of the Family Callahan
Among the family grew a great suspicion.
Sideways glances whilst sipping at their tea.
Seen silhouetted by moonlight, burying
Objects unknown on cliff top from bottom
Was assumed to be among their own estate.
(Though innocence was all they were insisting.)
Interesting to note the insisting
Parties, mostly first to cast suspicion,
Were family leaders of the fine estate.
A family fortune made by selling tea
Greedily squandered from top to bottom
While arguing on who they would be burying.
Quickly, a note on who was burying
Family treasures, they would be insisting
Once great wonders rotting in the bottom
Of pits dug, while avoiding suspicion,
By not the owners of Callahan Tea,
But by ones taking care of the estate.
For all while upkeeping the estate
Despite the family’s attempts at burying
The help from public eye, they grew the tea
And cleaned the land. So through their insisting
Of effort they were giving, suspicion
Landed among the top, not the bottom.
Now the treasure rotting in the bottom
Of pits on cliff-top grounds of the estate,
Needed to be moved without suspicion,
So night found them undoing the burying
Already undertaken while insisting
That fortunes lie in gold, not in tea.
The family in the morning found the tea
untended, and searching the cliff bottom
found the wreckage of the help. Insisting
upon finding the wealth of their estate
They looted the bodies before burying
Finding nothing confirmed their old suspicions.
For all the suspicions of the family of Callahan Tea,
Their wealth still went out to sea, burying itself on the bottom.
But for the bribes of a rival estate, good fortune would be all they were insisting.
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