The Poet's Parking Ticket Defense
A poet received a parking ticket and decided to appeal it in verse. He submitted a fourteen-line sonnet arguing that his car, like all matter, exists in a state of perpetual motion through spacetime, and therefore was never truly 'parked.' The judge, a former English major, denied the appeal but reduced the fine—citing 'adequate use of iambic pentameter but weak volta in the third quatrain.'
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