for Miz Quickly’s Day 24 prompt: Merit
The Merit of Parental Advice
I earned 32 Girl Scout badges,
made 1st class scout twice,
but my mother said,
her finger poking at me,
You better hope you can find
someone to marry.
Poetic Asides Response Poem
In Response to Atwood’s Three Desk Objects
What minutes tick
and what hours gone,
what moisture loss
before this white tissue
With nasal snot and
crusty bits sits bored
and crumpled stiff, and
What use these notes
with words and numbers,
what meaning is there
this word “flutter” and
What should I read into
UK 2020-21, if not a past
or some future date.
It taxes me.
Written for Miz Quickly’s Day 24: Merit. And that’s the way it was back when I was a kid, and nobody knew what autism was. “Your child is lazy and disruptive,” a teacher wrote on my report card. I shall endeavour to find something more intelligent to write after I clean the filthy oven. The 2nd poem is for PA’s Day 24: A Response Poem. I wrote to Three Desk Objects by Margaret Atwood . Photo by Zachary Kadolph on Unsplash. © Misky 2021, shared with #apoemaday on Twitter.
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