Wednesday, April 4, 2018

PAD Day 4: Tired, So Tired

...annnd, here is my Day 4 poem. Now i'm officially caught up. Today's dual prompts from Poetic Asides and NaPoWriMo: (1) write a poem with the title, "Case _______", and (2) write a poem that is about an abstract concept, but which discusses or describes that abstraction in the form of relentlessly concrete nouns.  This was inspired by a very long, tiring and busy couple of days which were largely responsible for me being a little behind in my daily poeming. For some reason, it almost seemed to dictate eschewing punctuation.



Case of Fatigue

the suitcase with broken corners
held together not by a clasp but a man's belt
lugged through the airport because it is too old
even to have wheels carried by a man
with tire tracks on the back of his shirt
hair uncombed for at least three days
shoes worn down to holey soles
and clothes as dirty and rumpled
as all the others packed in his luggage
with squeezed-out toothpaste and a dull razor
and he will sleep tonight at the terminal
in a slippery plastic chair because his flight
was delayed by a plane a pilot and crew
who just had nothing left in the tank

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