Fuck it. Here is my poem for Day 19 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Mix up some well-known quotes, no more than three or four words at a time. The poem should be eight lines or longer and consist mainly of the quotes you are borrowing.
The final line comes from Johnny Rotten’s remark at the final Sex Pistols gig at Winterland.
Here is my poem for Day 18 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: If you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead, which word would you choose? Include that word in a poem three times; try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines or longer.
I could not think of a word I would want on my forehead—not least of all because I would not want that word to limit how anyone might see me. And if I could think of one, it would either be in teeny-tiny letters in the middle of an eyebrow, or in invisible ink. For the purposes of this poem, I went with the invisible ink variant…
Here is my poem for Day 17 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Lots of three-syllable words, using this form:
Line 1 three-syllable word
Line 2 three words, two of them with three syllables
Line 3 six words, at least three of them with three syllables
Line 4 eight words, at least four of them with three syllables
New stanza
Line 5 six words, three with three syllables
Line 6 three words, two with three syllables
Line 7 one or two words and one three-syllable word
Here is my poem for Day 16 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem with four adjectives in it, then remove the adjectives and replace them with nouns. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
Harder than it sounds. I have included the original adjectives with strikethroughs, with the replacement noun following. In the first line of the first stanza, I added a word after the original noun to make the substitution work.
Yes, I left another alone, as it is technically a determiner. (I looked it up to make sure).
Here is my poem for Day 15 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: a poem in which half the lines, including the last line, are borrowed from a book or long magazine article. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-15-and-april-16-plus-some-prompt-poems/)
I chose excerpts from the Bill Nelson interview in issue 1.2 (Indian Summer 1993) of Fond Affexxions. (I hate Etsy, but there is a copy listed for sale there, if you want to take a look: https://www.etsy.com/listing/174753303/fond-affexxions-magazine-fanzine-no-12.) Lines 1, 3, 5 (after the ‘and’), 7, 9, and 12 are taken from the interview. I particularly liked the phrase I used for the last line, so I made sure to keep it, even though it meant ending the poem with a huge non-sequitur.
Here is my poem for Day 14 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem using at least six unusual words beginning with V in a poem at least eight lines long.
I went all out on this one, folks:
Here is my poem for Day 13 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Write a poem in the style of bill bissett.
Not really my thing, but I managed to combine the phonetic (mis)spelling with a bit of fun at my own expense (I’m a copy editor)—and even threw in a Jules and the Polar Bears reference.
Here is my poem for Day 12 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: An acrostic poem using the title of a favorite movie from the year you were born; the poem should have something to do with a childhood memory. (https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-10-1112-13-14-plus-some-poems/)
I used Irma la Douce and The Pink Panther. Though neither count as favorites, I have seen both of them, and they both came out in 1963.
Here is my poem for Day 11 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: Use book titles in a poem: 4 or 5 in a poem at least 8 lines long, 6 in a 12-line poem, or 8 in a 16-line poem.
Here, in order, is the list of book titles I used:
Cocteau’s World — Jean Cocteau (anthology; Margaret Crosland, editor)
Seven Types of Ambiguity — Elliot Perlman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights — Salman Rushdie
Holy Robots — Vasilina Orlova
Through a Quiet Window — Steve Jansen
Hailstones and Halibut Bones — Mary O’Neill
with a grain of sand — Wisława Szymborska
What Is All This — Stephen Dixon
The Festival of Insignificance — Milan Kundera
The Coördinates of Yes — Janeé J. Baugher
The Hanging on Union Square — H. T. Tsiang
The Body’s Physics — Janeé J. Baugher
Hypergraphia — David Sylvian
The Purple Wash — Minnie A. Collins
Wishes sometimes have consequences — Kevin J. O’Conner
The Endless Talking — Haruomi Hosono
My second poem for Day 10, follows Chris Jarmick’s POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: ten lines about something which [sic] was, but now is not. https://chrisjarmick.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/napowrimo-prompts-for-april-10-1112-13-14-plus-some-poems/
Ordinary Average Thoughts 