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# Lowered Expectations
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/lowered-expectations/
- Published: 2021-07-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I wanted to write about twenty two hundred bottles on the wall just to see your reaction... but then the game came on and I drank one.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I wanted to write about  
twenty two hundred bottles on the wall  
just to see your reaction...  
but then the game came on and I drank one.

So here we go, twenty one hundred and ninety nine bottles on the wall...

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**Author notes:** The prompt calls for writing something with 2,2200 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782860-Write-about-2200-Hundred-of-Anything-top-3-