Easily confused words

We are almost halfway through Na/GloPoWriMo! April seems to have flown by like a flock of swifts!

Our challenge today is to incorporate homophones, homographs and homonyms into our poems, or make 'productive use of English's ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings.'

As I am teaching just this to potential English home language educators, the above shouldn't be too much of a challenge, right? Wrong! However, I will do my very best! Either way, this should be fun and quite possibly ridiculous. I ask for forgiveness in advance for bad poetry...

The row

The present couple

bought a present

and a had raucous row

beside a row of can

'Can you try not to bump the cans?'

she shouted as if she'd already won

at the one she thought she loved

'Why can't we offer to take dessert?'

'Because ice cream melts in a desert

and I will desert you 

and your sticky mess

within the army's mess!'

Their peers peered at them

and separately tried to separate them,

trying to reason 

and find the reason

for the row

beside the row

of cans