Special Birthday Prompt For Sophy - Writer's Cramp |
20 Lines This poem is entered in "The Writer's Cramp" . Here is Sophurky 's special birthday prompt: Use 3 of these bolded: vote be called for jury duty bet on a horse race join the military buy a lottery ticket donate blood get a Costco card rent a hotel room (or Airbnb} get a tattoo The Latest in Lost Generations Coming of age, the texting Generation "Z" Some not bright enough to out think a flea No energy, they tend toward the sedentary, Please help us if they join the military! Imagine they are called for jury duty Your life on trial as they doze on all too ample booties Believing all they're told that celebrities have to say Opinions unenlightened by the light of day We, more entranced by acting, reciting the lengthy Bard, They aim lower, just trying to get a Costco card The altruistic might attempt to donate blood More suited to get a tattoo or wrestle down in mud Not too concerned, this social media-addicted brood, Their votes dictated by the latest Twitter mood Seeing news readers as daily fonts of veritable truth, Again life goes wasted on the shallow blush of youth Like Gertrude Stein, we long for what is distant, hazy, in the past Seeing ourselves as wiser, stronger, true and fast Ever deceiving ourselves through the cloud of rhyme We, the choicest of knuckleheads back in our prime! |