2022 April PAD Challenge: Day 23
Write a poem every day of April with the 2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a conspiracy poem.
For today's prompt, write a conspiracy poem. Line your ball caps with aluminum foil, cover your walls with cryptic sticky notes, and write a poem that exposes (or refutes) a conspiracy. Is the Earth flat? Are all professional sports (and entertainment awards ceremonies) fixed? Did people really talk about Bruno? Write your poem, because I want to believe.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.
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Here’s my attempt at a Conspiracy Poem:
"EVERYONE"
Everyone's out to get you--
the postal carrier, cashier,
bus driver, door-to-door
canvasser, factory line
worker, chef, doctor, boss,
police officer, firefighter,
neighbor, stranger, random
person hitching a ride
through the country who's
walking along the interstate
on the other side of the state--
EVERYONE; they're all out
to get you, but they haven't
had the chance to get you
(not yet), or, perhaps, it's
maybe possible (however
unlikely) that they're not.
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
