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one hundred words
September 20, 2018
one
hundred
words
she said. You have
one
hundred
words
to write a poem.
Now or not ever,
one
hundred
words
and nothing more, to tell me who you are, how you feel, and what you want them to know.
And I thought, How can I do that in
one
hundred
words
because there’s so much more than that I want to say, so many things I need to tell them.
But I start writing, and I can tell she’s counting the words, counting counting, eighty-six eighty-seven, and she sighs a little sigh and she takes out the gun and
© April R., Highland Village, TX
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This poem popped into my head nearly complete – not every word, but the idea, the form, the beginning and the ending. I don't know why.