Friday, April 23, 2010

NaPoWriMo #23 - Unlikely Couples

Prompt:
Read Write Poem member Sage Cohen has a terrific suggestion for today’s poems: Write a poem in which you combine a speaker and an event that normally don’t go together (such as sports broadcasters and poetry writing), as Jay Leeming does in his poem, “Man Writes Poem.”
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Vegetarian at a Pig Roast

Like a child lost at a department
store, the servers whiz around, over
and past your hopeful glaze which waters
and flavors your plate full of sides.

9 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:49 AM

    Short and simple. I like it.

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  2. Get enough sides and you're whole.

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  3. Anonymous2:00 PM

    I'm a vegetarian, and I went to a pig roast as a child . . . the day after I saw "Charlotte's Web" for the first time. Childhood trauam.

    Anyway, loved this piece! (And I'm hungry . . .)

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  4. Anonymous2:04 PM

    Dangit - I know how to spell "trauma."

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  5. Pig roasts and vegetarians don't go together.
    Nice post.
    Pamela

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  6. Nice take on this prompt! I can see the vegetarian sitting there with all the side dishes...

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  7. Anonymous6:22 PM

    that sez so much in so few... magical peek

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  8. Nice. The light side of being.

    well done! in a vegetarian sort of way...

    ~mark

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  9. Thanks, everyone. Funny thing is a friend took me to vegetarian dim sum this evening, in Chinatown. No sides, just mock pork, mock chicken, mock beef...

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