Dear Readers,
Welcome (back)!
For the tenth year running - to celebrate the arbitrary designation of "National Poetry Month" - I will be writing and posting a poem here every day for the next thirty days.
Shout out, as always, to the prolific Jon Berger who helped inspire this project.
The rules:
- I have compiled a list of 54 prompts, each assigned to a different playing card
- Every day I will draw a card to select a prompt
- Based on that prompt I will write a poem that contains 280 or less characters
- By the end of the day I post it here
The complete list is below:
| 2 | c | Sandy Hook Truthers |
| 2 | d | Two and a Half Men |
| 2 | h | The Myth of Sisyphus |
| 2 | s | The Myth of Entitlement Reform |
| 3 | c | Three Buck Chuck |
| 3 | d | The Pythagorean Theorem |
| 3 | h | The Angel Number |
| 3 | s | The Tripartite Soul |
| 4 | c | Spirit Guides |
| 4 | d | Spirit Fingers |
| 4 | h | Heartland |
| 4 | s | Mondo Kim’s Video and Music |
| 5 | c | Dying Breeds |
| 5 | d | Artifice |
| 5 | h | Harmonicas |
| 5 | s | Tofu Cream Cheese |
| 6 | c | Clam Jerky |
| 6 | d | TV Repairmen |
| 6 | h | Statue at Lee Circle |
| 6 | s | The Sandwich Question |
| 7 | c | Bedford-Stuyvesant |
| 7 | d | Friends With Benefits |
| 7 | h | Tombstones |
| 7 | s | Pack Animals |
| 8 | c | Subway Riders |
| 8 | d | Taxi Drivers |
| 8 | h | Water Wings (TM) |
| 8 | s | Abandoned Names |
| 9 | c | Christmas Ornaments |
| 9 | d | Hanukkah Gelt |
| 9 | h | Easter Eggs |
| 9 | s | New Years Regrets |
| 10 | c | The Fall of Communism |
| 10 | d | The Fall of Capitalism |
| 10 | h | The Fall of the Monarchy |
| 10 | s | The Fall of Your Scene |
| J | c | Bodhisattvas |
| J | d | Sudden Death |
| J | h | Dylan Going Electric |
| J | s | Two-Spirits |
| Q | c | Sworn Virgins |
| Q | d | Cam Girls |
| Q | h | New Mothers |
| Q | s | “The Divorce Capital of the World” |
| K | c | Burger King (Revisited) |
| K | d | Thin Elvis |
| K | h | Zach Adler, 2005 |
| K | s | Never-Kings |
| A | c | Small Victories |
| A | d | The Greater Good |
| A | h | Helium |
| A | s | Impermanence |
| Green Joker | | The Analog World |
| Black Joker | | The Digital Word |
Thanks to all of you friends and bots who have read over the last decade.
