Go somewhere public. Listen for a conversation you wouldn’t want to join; maybe it’s too intense, too personal, too weird, or too mundane. Now poem a poem where you insert yourself into the conversation.
BONUS PROMPT: Emily likes coffee. Write a poem about coffee.
Adam Stone offers a hat-tip to the excellent Nicole Homer and her own prompt for April 10:
Write 10 meals with someone you love.
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Start your poem with the following ghost line:
“I am familiar with the treason of an ambitious mouth.”
“Deer in the highlights.”
Create a mythology for a (real or imagined) place.
Someone has died, but no one had anything to say.
Take only fifteen to thirty minutes to eulogize a person whose memorial service you might be asked to speak at.
What happens in the lost hour?
Focus on something you have had enough of in your life: TV shows, small talk, forks, people.
Now write about a time when that very thing brought you joy.
You are the last person in your industry alive and qualified to do your job. How does this affect your approach and work ethic?
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