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. We've even been
so generous to accept poets from other parts of the USA and the entire country
of Canada!
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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "told".
Stories I Could Have Made Up But Didn't
ReplyDeleteShe was named Wisconsin because of a bet her father owed
The winner chose her birth name
I thought Wisconsin was bad
Now I realize it could have been so much worse
My sister-in-law refused to sleep in the guest room
"That mattress" she said "has gotten three women pregnant"
The fact that no man would be sleeping with her in the bed
Did not dissuade her
When I drove across the railroad tracks
My brother pointed out "the town drunk"
Later, when I met her at the shelter where I volunteered
She told me her life would have taken a different turn
Had her mother been able to send her to the "Wendy Ward Charm School"
But her mother was a drunk, too
And all her money went to booze
When I told him my major was English
He told he loved Emily Dickinson
Really?
I wouldn't have taken you for a man of letters
What? he said
"I'm talking about the action figure"
My best friend from eighth grade
Who I hadn't seen in twenty-eight years
Told me her husband was cheating on her
"How'd you find out?" I asked
"There were two strange bobby pins in the back seat of the car"
Catherine Powers
October 2013
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