National Poetry Month 2019

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.

Poem #290 will be posted here sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy the remaining hours of National Hexagonal Awareness Month(?)

- Z