03/31/26 - Warm-up day before Day 1
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NaPoWriMo Prompt
It’s March 31, or as we like to call with around here, Na/GloPoWriMo Eve. A time when poetic spirits haunt the land, preparing for their month of fun…
Tomorrow, we’ll have for you our first daily resource and featured participant, as well as a daily prompt. In the meantime, here’s an early-bird prompt for those of you whose geographic relationship with the international date line means that April 1 arrives a bit earlier than it does at National/Global Poetry Writing Month HQ.
Start by reading Katie Naughton’s poem, “Debt Ritual: Oysters.” Now, write your own poem in which you refer to a specific writer or artist (or work of literature/art) and make a declarative statement about want or desire. Set the poem in a particular, people-filled place, like a restaurant, bus station, museum, school, etc.
My Poem
Jury Duty
Here I am in line again
Waiting among hundreds
To see if I'll get picked
For jury duty today.
The line of bored and sleepy people snakes
All around the county courthouse lobby. There are
Races, creeds, colors galore and more
Slipping in through the street-side doors.
I look at the length of the line.
I look at my place waaaaay in the back of the line.
And I wonder as I shuffle another few inches
Whether there's any chance I'd be picked.
I stare back down at my dog-eared copy of
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and
I wonder about the Vogons, they who
Destroyed the entire planet Earth
To make way for a hyperspace bypass
How they would chitter and wink in their
Slug-like ways
To see the system of pure chance in which
I'm currently mired.
