POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
'Closed mouths don’t get fed.'
Write a poem or short story using this phrase as your central theme. What scenarios does this bring to mind?
Zenith
The apple didn’t just fall far from the tree,
It crossed the cosmic threshold into another dimension
And fell on Newton’s head.
Law of Attraction states
We attract what we think we deserve.
Waterboarded with your toxic positivity
And false sense of hospitality.
You never intended for me to walk into your abode
And put my feet up on the coffee table like I owned the place.
I was the victim of your two-faced charade.
Pardon me if I bring with me the brigade to break your walls down.
Cannonballed into oblivion.
This was the revolution they prophesied.
Prisoner of war, lined up in their shackles,
Opening their mouths for the earth worms to slime and slither down their throats.
Closed mouths don’t get fed.
So the worms find an apple, rotten at the core.