Here's the last "Two for Tuesday" prompt in November:

Prompt #1: Take the phrase "Everybody says (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make that the title of the poem, and write the poem.

Prompt #2: Take the phrase "Nobody says (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make that the title of the poem, and write the poem.

Here's my attempt for the day:

"Everybody says not to do it again"

This funny little feeling I get at times
scares the crap out of me. I can't tell

if it's from the head or heart, and all
the specialists can't agree what's wrong

with me. They say, "Don't do it again,"
again and again as if I know the answer

they can't seem to find. My mind, my
fragile heartbeat. Take a magnifying

glass to my inside-out, outside-in; try
to piece me together again. Let's put

the magnifying glass between this sun
and this wood to start a fire again.

*****

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:12:54 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [163]