Zoned

You're asking me what rhymes with zoned?  It's your poem!  What have you written - caravel?  No, that reminds with caramel.  If you have caramel on a caravel, be careful!  The boats were swift but the sea was cruel.

Come on, you can think of something that rhymes with zoned!  Let's see - ambush?  Not even close!  But I will point out that "ham-crush" doesn't quite rhyme with ambush, although perhaps it's okay because it looks like it rhymes.  Let's consult the Big Book Of Poetry Rules!

Uh oh!  We misplaced it again!

Why are you having such a hard time thinking of something that rhymes with zoned?  What did you just say?  "Stoked"?  That's a little closer, because of assonance - the "o" sound is the same.  But would it be enough to fool your sophomore poetry teacher?  No, it would not!  She was a hard-ass!

Seriously, I love you but you really need to come up with a decent rhyme for "zoned."  It's really not that hard, it's not like orange or purple or... What did you write?  "Sesquicentennial"?!?!  Are you out of your mind?  How could that ever in a million years in a million languages on a million different planets rhyme with "zoned"?

You're fucking with me, aren't you?

What - you've finished your couplet?  Let me see.  Hm.  I think that's fine.  Let's go get something to eat now, shall we?

No, leave your couplet behind.  I'll just put it here.  Where it'll bother no one.  It certainly caused some consternation didn't it!

Inside the industrial park, newly zoned
She had honestly never felt more aloned.