2012 Poetry Month

Next Week Is Your Birthday

Hmmm…what to write about.

I could write about procrastinating. But wait. I have to go to the post office.

Okay…now I’m back. So now that I’ve looked up the date the postal service was established (maybe I could write a poem about the post office?) and watched author Lisa Yee’s video about the dangers of Peeps and microwaves, and sent the link to my son and my sister, now I’ll write.

Okay…I’ve got it. I’m going to write a mystery poem. What errand did I just run? What do the bold, underlined letters in this poem spell?

NEXT WEEK IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

by April Halprin Wayland

 

Waiting in this

massive

mega line

is mostly

okay, because

after all, I have

literally

a gazillion

fermenting

text messages

to destroy.

And when do

you

evehave the

opportunity

to get rid of

those

excess

texts?

I mean really…when

do you ever stand this still?

xxxxx

© by April Halprin Wayland 2010 all rights reserved

 

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