Much Adu (about something)

They needed a short story

to become the latest fad

So I thought my mind and came up

with that sort of instantaneous tag.

Of course, having rushed in,

it was looking a little crowded

So I removed the “I” from the ad

then , noticed  it seemed prone

to more ambivalence 

than they could afford

and I had to replace the full stop

with a less ambiguous semi-colon.

The poem needed an alluring title,

(that's when I could see red  before my eyes)

But decided  to grab the first badge-
no need to borrow, it came in handy
and quite able to blush on command.

I needed one more epithet
for them not to come around

But, since everything I looked up

was beginning to sound redundant

I had to change it all
and return to my silent oyster.