4.20.14 NaPoWriMo PROMPT: Our (optional) prompt. Today I challenge you to write a poem in the voice of a member of your family. This can be a good way to try to distance yourself from your own experience, without reaching so far away from your own life that it’s hard to come up with specific, realistic details. But watch out! This type of exercise can also dredge up a lot of feelings. So if you think writing in the voice of your grandfather will be too heavy, maybe try the voice of your four-year-old niece. Four-year-old problems might be a little lighter in scope.
POV: Future Step Brother
Why doesn’t she leave us alone?
Stupid tagalong girl.
I’ll show her with my BB gun.
I’m a good shot as I stand
on the edge of the frog pond
where we built the raft.
It was not her idea.
Stupid girl can’t take
yellow frog guts gushing out.
Can’t play marbles with her.
She wins and hides them.
Plays up to my mom
who thinks she’s a nice girl.
Stupid girl with red braids.
Good at mumbly peg too.
Where’s she get that stupid knife?
I hate the dumb girl.
She sleeps with a fake
German Luger
under her pillow.
C.J. Prince
2014
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