If you do something appall-ing
you should appall-o-gize.

It’s only rite.
prompt: apologize

There’s low in slow
and ick in quick
but ease inside what’s measured…
so aim for tame
in any game,
of labor, love, and leisure.
prompt: slow
A coward is
compliant
…
who sits on
his big
fat
comfort zone–
pulling up
cover
to
complain
–by flashlight
prompt: cowardice

stranded on a
dessert isle
in sea of caramel topping ,
I swam across
that sticky sauce
snacking without stopping,
the shore I reached
was Sugar beach
a shining bit o’ grit,
which crystaled sweet
stuck to feet
to belly and to hip.
and so I left
before my heft
rendered me a whale,
in search of flavor
that I could savor
and jerry-rig a sail.
Life is a test.
Both multiple choice
and true
or false
…
so black
the write bubble
–and postulate why
(perhaps an essay…
perhaps a posted essay so format mimics creed)
since Number 2
is awfully hard to
erase
~except in cursive~
and machines
have no margin
for
human error.
prompt: false