POEM STARTER
Submitted by Maranda Quinn
Write a poem from the perspective of someone who obviously hates — or is just extremely bad at — poetry.
Try to consider why someone may feel pressured to write a poem. Love? A school project?
Time To Pull Up ChatGPT
Ugh.
The worst assignment.
So hard to write the right alignment.
Hmm.
An abundance of confusing words.
Old-fashioned phrases I’ve never heard.
Bruh.
Too much feeling.
Old men from years ago concealing
Hidden messages between each line,
Playing mean tricks on the mind.
You know,
With my vocabulary
That’s pretty much limited to “what the sigma,”
Poetry is a complete enigma.