Write a discount love poem.
Meaning: a love poem that fails to live up to the (perhaps very low) expectations of a love poem.
Category: tips from the bar
Tips from the Bar: Steve?
Use William Shakespeare’s most famous stage directions to prompt your poem:
Exit, pursued by bear.
Tips from the Bar: Belated and Misdirected
Respond to a love letter that wasn’t addressed to you.
Tips from the Bar: the Busy Bartender Prompt
You see your bartender out of context, outside of a bar. Where? Why? What happens?
Tips from the Bar: A Shira Erlichman Prompt
Consider five questions you would like to ask of your higher power.
Ask those questions of yourself.
Answer them.
Tips from the Bar: The Adam Sandler Prompt
Imagine the most peaceful place you can: your meditative space, the place from which you draw all your quiet power. Describe it as purely and accurately as you can, and how it makes you feel.
Now something happens. What?
Tips from the Bar: Ann Coulter’s Waffles
A terrible person has cooked you breakfast. Why?
Tips from the Bar: The Five-Second Rule
Write about the place where, if you dropped a poem there, you would never consider picking it back up and putting it in your mouth.
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