Today's prompts:
WBP: Write a "persona" poem.
NPWM: Write a poem that involves alliteration, consonance, and assonance.
PSH: Write a parody to Bukowski's poem "So You Want to Be a Writer.” (Jackie Chou)
I combined all three prompts today, more or less. Bukowski's poem contains some good, frank advice as well as some dubious advice, in my opinion. My takeoff was more inspired by Bukowski than a parody of his poem. It's more of a parody of public service announcements and of poets who overuse alliteration. Regarding the second prompt, I did focus more on alliteration than on consonance and assonance, although there are probably (albeit serendipitously) examples of assonance and consonance too.
Be Great, Don’t Alliterate!
It’s a persistent problem among poets –
a plethora of surplus consonants littering our landscape.
Particularly perplexing is a preponderance of P’s.
In some municipalities it’s illegal to alliterate.
You can be fined up to four-hundred fifty-five dollars
and forced to collect consonants from culverts, creeks and crevices
with a pointy trash-picker pole. Imagine you in an orange jumpsuit,
sullenly sweeping the shoulder of the roadside.
So please, next time you compose a poem,
don’t dump alphabetic detritrus in the dirt.
Take it from me, Penny the Picker-Upper Platypus—
Be Great, Don’t Alliterate!
(This public service message sponsored by
the Council for Controlling Consonants
and the Anti-Assonance Association)
It’s a persistent problem among poets –
a plethora of surplus consonants littering our landscape.
Particularly perplexing is a preponderance of P’s.
You can be fined up to four-hundred fifty-five dollars
and forced to collect consonants from culverts, creeks and crevices
with a pointy trash-picker pole. Imagine you in an orange jumpsuit,
sullenly sweeping the shoulder of the roadside.
don’t dump alphabetic detritrus in the dirt.
Take it from me, Penny the Picker-Upper Platypus—
Be Great, Don’t Alliterate!
the Council for Controlling Consonants
and the Anti-Assonance Association)
And here is an AI-generated cartoon of Penny. I think she looks more like a duck than a platypus, and I'm not sure what she's holding in her left hand:
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