Experiments in Style: Gimme the blues

An alternative rendering of a rather mundane story

Writing blues songs is quite fun, and in terms of constraints a blues song is almost a form of Oulipo in itself. (The Oulipo is a French writing movement that experiments with using constraints of various kinds, and experiments with styles.) The usual format of a blues song is:

Line 1, rhyme A

Line 2, same as line 1

Line 3, rhyme A