Today’s prompt:  Today, I challenge you to write a visual poem. If that’s not specific enough, perhaps you can try your hand at a calligram? That’s a poem or other text in which the words are arranged into a specific shape or image. You might find inspiration in the famous calligrams written by Guillaume Apollinaire. And a word to the wise — the best way to cope with today’s exercise may well be to abandon your keyboard, and sit down with paper and pen (and maybe crayons or colored pencils or markers!)

I thought I’d need help with this, computer help from one of the family experts.  Instead I played and this is what happened.  Let’s see if I can not load it here where the lines are always altered and I can’t figure out how to amend unless I sit with Laurel Leigh or Lish Jamtass.  (I actually wanted to eliminate the grid but haven’t figured that out either.  However, it is interesting this way.)  Drat.  The art did not transfer.

Visual Annual Exam

What day is it	The doctor asks	A test
Day of week	Month	Year
Like a year	Means	Anything
Except	How many	More
Years or months	Or day	And then
She asks	The mental	Acuity test
Remember	These	Three items
Tree	Ball	Chair
She	Says	Which
Are the	Last words	I say to her
Instead of	Goodbye	I
Can	Still	Touch
My	Toes	And
Practice	Tai	Chi
Does	It	Matter
My	Matter	When
Yours	Is	Eaten
By	Leiomyosarcoma	?

~C.J. Prince

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