For this prompt, you will need to fill out, in five minutes or less, the following “Almanac Questionnaire.” Then, use your responses as the basis for a poem.
today’s headline reads:
“an aggrieved trump
blames press
for furor over disinfectant comments”
i’m wearing a shirt that says:
may i never be complete, content, perfect
and the cars rumble by
the dogs bark in the distance
the birds tweet
like number 45
but their’s are much more peaceful
and they don’t recommend us
to inject disinfectant
and the letter from the irs sits on my table
like a paperweight
to remind me how the government
controls everything
yet nothing at all
and george carlin once said,
“governments don’t want
an intelligent population
because people who can think
critically can’t be ruled.
