This blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "true".
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Truth or Something Like It in My Family
ReplyDeleteIt never really happened at all
It certainly didn't happened that way
Even if it did
Why bring it up now?
You live too much in the past
Not a happy past either
Try living in the here and now
For a change
Nine out ten recommend it
Besides your father was a war hero and
Your mother is prone to hyperventilation
They don't need this
Not at their age
Can't you just put this drama on hold for
A few more years?
Maybe you'll forget your troubles
Or if you can't or won't
You'll only ruin a dead person's reputation
Which is a lot better than a live person
Which is what you're contemplating now
Catherine Powers
July 10, 2013
Copyright 2013
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ReplyDeleteIn a certain construction, starting with “True”
ReplyDeleteis readying from the beginning to dismiss
whatever it names as true:
True, it gives it its moment, but
— see, there’s the “but” —
there’s always a “but,” and
the “but” part is the part
that counts; that matters; that has
import & weight & a full endorsement
& really all the meaning, in the end.
I say screw that construction. I say screw it
by doing only the first part, and repeating it.
Refusing to move on to anything else.
True, people may not get it. True, they may
not. True, they will probably hear the rest
in their minds anyway, no matter what
you do. True. True, people may
well not get it, get you, get what
you are saying is true. That’s true. True.
--LisaLou
TRUING UP THE CORNERS
ReplyDeleteOF A LIFE THAT IS MOVING
VERY QUICKLY
ALONG THE WRONG TRACK
several things are out of kilter
here in the small room
where i write and draw
and make up songs
that i don't write down
because
several things are out of kilter
here in this room
where i move stacks of paper
from one end of the desk
to the other
expecting that somehow,
magically,
at the end of one of these moves,
something will reveal itself
that will help me correct the fact that
several things are out of kilter
here in this space
that i've carved out between
teleconferences and bedtime stories
and "did you take out the trash"
and i don't know why i can't balance all of this
how hard can it be?