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Putrid Poetry: Day 20: This Really Happened!

April 20, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #20: Poem Inspired by a Photograph This Really Happened! A Burmese python told the waiter, “I will try the alligator!” He opened wide to eat headfirst but got so full he felt he’d burst He ached and cramped, began to shout,   as gator clawed and SPLATTED […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 19: One Fine Spine–For Now

April 19, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #19: The Persona Poem One Fine Spine–For Now I’m the spine of the book, the backbone, the side. I stand like a soldier and act like a guide. But as soon as you buy me, I’ll split, crack, and ache when you warp and deform me and […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 18: Lamar Didn’t Listen

April 18, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #18: The Limerick Lamar Didn’t Listen There once was a pig named Lamar Whose mom said, “Don’t mosey too far.”              But he wandered away            on that sad, tragic day. Now his feet are for sale in a jar. I went […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 17: Bloody Memory

April 17, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #17: Concrete Poem    Bloody Memory       After             math a velvet valentine    as red as the blood from the famous 2nd-grade pencil sharpener accident waits on my desk like a bomb. My name is written on the front in flowery letters. There is lace all around the […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 16: Eddie’s Trick and So-Called Stew

April 16, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #16: Quatrains Cafeteria Duo Trio 1.    Eddie’s Trick See cool Eddie? He’s my hero He’s the only kid who knows How to make the cherry Kool-Aid Flow like rivers from his nose 2.    So-Called Stew   The menu says stew but that doesn’t fool me They’ve figured out […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 15: The Piandroid

April 14, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #15: Make-Up-a-Word Poem My Mom, the Piandroid When my mother plays piano the tendons in her hand jump up and down practically burst through her skin like the wires of the piano snuck out of their wooden coffin the night before to play inside a real person […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 14: Grandma’s Snakes

April 14, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #14: The Cinquain Grandma’s Snakes Old legs. Grandma’s dry skin has shiny blue veins that slither wriggle pulse bulge: Grandma’s pet snakes. I never knew my family was so disgusting until I started writing poetry. Cool! That IS what I adore about poetry, Louis. It can open […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 13: Lemons Coming Out of My Pores

April 13, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #13: The Diamante Lemons Coming Out of My Pores lemonade tangy, yellow clinking, drinking, chilling, summer, liquid, noon, basketball slipping, dripping, shaking clear, salty sweat You said 2 opposite or related things work. Lemonade turns into sweat! It turns into something else, too, but you don’t want […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 12: Don’t Look at Uncle Gary!

April 12, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #12: The Haiku Don’t Look at Uncle Gary! He wears a Speedo Like a plump water balloon Wears a rubber band Nothing shocks you? I’ll find something…I know haiku has to be about nature, but we were at the lake. Does that count? I must confess this […]

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Putrid Poetry: Day 11: My Mom Doesn’t ALWAYS Embarrass Me

April 11, 2016 By Laura

Putrid Poetic Ponderings

Dr. Louis Pasternak Skullstench: Stealth Poet Poetry Assignment #11: The Acrostic My Mom Doesn’t Always Embarrass Me Mom, I would be an Orphan without you!  [So don’t take a job in some other country] Thank you for not Hugging me in public. Or private. Even when you’re Right about something, you never rub it in. […]

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