(What is this, you ask? (and well you might) In a moment of silliness I posted an offer — still open — for the next 10 people who buy a copy of Cat Girl’s Day Off. Email me a receipt or picture and I’ll write you a poem. This one is for Cynthia, who bought the book on Kindle from Amazon and requested a poem “…in honour of our wonderful nation’s independence day celebrations…fireworks and rednecks”)
Ya’ll Watch This!
Oh, those famous last words,
those harbringers of doom
and BOOM.
The air,
thick with brimstone and humidity,
shimmered in the heat
like a Mississippi mirage held in bay only
by the repeated application of sweet tea and popsicles.
Ya’ll watch this!
yelled John,
his face lit in equal measures
by joy, Budweiser,
and the reflected glow of star-spangled fireworks.
He lit the fuse.
Roman candles, bottle rockets,
silver spinners, shot tubes,
and a handful of sparklers for good measure,
all tied together into one makeshift rocket pack—
because everyone dreams of flying, don’t they?
It was a 4th of July no one would forget.
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THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
Aw, glad you liked it
It gives me a change to flex my poetry muscle too…used to write them all the time!
Hi, I bought the book off Amazon and posted a picture of my cat Clark standing next to the book on Twitter. I used his twitter feed. (@MrClarkCat)I tweeted what I want the poem to be about, (which was having every kind of superpower) I didn’t know whether to email you or not, but I’m just asking to make sure that you saw my tweets.
If you did and you’r still writing the poem, Sorry for bothering you!!