I am trying to figure out

How to make poetry scratch cards

Sort of like lottery tickets

Except with writing under the silver paint

Buy a card and win a poem every time

More fun than reading numbers

That tell you you just lost again

It would have to be a short piece of prose

Nobody wants to scratch a novel sized poem

Even better would be a multi layer card

Scratch off the top layer for the first poem

Then scratch that away to reveal another poem

The poetic equivalent of the Russian doll

That has a doll inside every doll

The final scratch reveals a blank page

So you can write your own poem

Then you can paint over it

Give it as a gift to somebody special

What a great way to surprise folks

With witty two liners

Hidden under the scratch paint

You did not win the lottery

But you won my heart

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Thank you for scratching me

It itched a lot

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I dare you to resist scratching the second line

I knew you would do it

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This message will self destruct

Fifteen seconds after scratching

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If you scratch mine

I will scratch yours

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I think I am falling in love with y….

Scratch that