"Any more bids?"
Ego said with a sway
Not one of them answered
Not one but Clay.
"I'll bid another poem!
One better than before!"
As he started to rhyme
Jaws dropped to the floor.
"Just another poem?
With the same rhyme scheme?"
"Oh yes, another poem,
For of the TC, I dream."
As I pull out my notebook,
All tattered and worn
The look on Ego's face
Was all but forlorn.
"Change the damn scheme!"
he barked through the room.
"There's no need to scream,
but you ask for your doom."
His power was clear
Any rhyme he could make!
The ending was near
Almost time to rake.
"Your rhymes are impeccable!"
Ego beamed at the lad
He was beholding a spectacle
How could he be mad?
"Take your TC, use it well."
As he passed the money
His face showed a tell
All bright and sunny