Day 19 of 30: Global Poetry Writing Month and National Poetry Writing Month
Today's NaPoWriMo's challenge is to write a “how to” poem – a didactic poem that focuses on a practical skill.
Is this a poem? Or prose in poetic form? Whatever the case, I had fun with this one. Since it is based on first-hand experience, it was very easy to write.
Photo: "Breakfast on the Terrace: Goa, India"
©2016 Kat Shamash
How to Miss the Bus
First of all,
get up late.
Hit the snooze
and then fall asleep.
Again.
Get up.
Drink the second cup of coffee,
leisurely,
and then, even though you know you shouldn't,
drink a third.
Ignore your good sense.
Pick up the book you're reading and
finish a chapter, even though
you're not even dressed yet, and
even though you won’t really
have time to
take a shower.
Take a shower anyway.
Do it double-quick so that
you lose a contact lens
and have to spend extra time
trying to figure out if it has
crept to the back of your
eyeball
or
has simply disappeared all together.
(Be sure to store extra
pair of lenses in a place you will forget.)
Stumble about, blind and frantic.
In a last-ditch attempt to see,
don an old
pair of glasses.
Be sure that by now
you only have only
four minutes left
to make your morning
breakfast smoothie.
Do not forget to drop a large
dollop of yogurt onto
your silk shirt
ensuring that you will have to go
change the entire
outfit.
In preparation,
be sure that the shoes you
want to wear
are nowhere to be found.
Spend precious time
looking for them.
Find them under the
false hope that you
will find them.
Wear another pair.
Run out the door.
Lock it.
Remember that your
your phone is inside,
charging.
Realize, in that very same second,
that your keys are also inside
and that by the look of the position
of the sun, high in the sky,
the bus
has already left you
in the dust.
© 2016 Kat Shamash (April 19, 2016)
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