My Day 6 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to use a short line from a favorite book as the title of a poem, write a poem based on that title, and then replace the title with something completely different. I started out with a line from the 2006 translation of Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius: 

‘…there are two reasons why you should be content with your experience.’

The last time we met,
we went to Disneyland.

I don’t remember much
except that it was evening,
we took a couple of photos,
and I think neither one of us
left satisfied.

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The summer we first met,
we discovered we had a mutual love
of Karla Bonoff.

You asked me to sing
one of her songs,
but I was shy.

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I shouldn’t have worn flip-flops
the day we went to Himeji Castle.

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The time we went to see
It Couldn’t Happen Here
at New Year’s
was the last time I went to a theater
where you could sit down
during the middle of a movie
and then stay long enough
to sit through the first part of the next showing
and leave when it got to where you came in.

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This episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
is a clip show.

I haven’t been watching long,
but I know a clip show
when I see one.

At the very least,
that was way too much
to fit into a single episode,
especially with the plot
jumping around like that.

(5 April 2021 – posted April 6th)

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