- Grab the closest book. Go to page 29. Write down 10 words that catch your eye. Use 7 of words in a poem. For extra credit, have 4 of them appear at the end of a line.
- Tone
- Refusal
- Quarter
- Bemused
- Germ
- Lick
- Calmly
- Mental
- Obeyed
- Cream
She put a quarter in the slot
and heard the tone.
And tried to call her mother
calmly.
Bemused when the nature of things
obeyed, in the predictable way.
Should there have been a cord
she’d have wrapped it
around her fingers
it would have done
what she wanted it to do.
cream colored plasticine
she’d have licked the spirals
she would have cried.
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