WRITING OBSTACLE
Overt. Commandeer. Obtuse.
Write a short story or poem including these 3 words exactly (do not change their tenses or forms). You do not have to use them in this order, but the point is to fit them naturally into your writing.
Upon falling in love with the Jones boy from Geometry
In my 9th grade math class, i became a master of obtuse angles.
Angles,
are easy,
they always work out
nice, and square, and allowing
me to commandeer them.
In my 9th grade math class, i learned to be coy.
Seated squarely across from a beautiful boy
with infinite eyes and a long, pointed
obtuse nose.
An inability to be overt was born from the dots on his cheeks.
I batted my eyes, and stuttered to silence
nice, and sweet, and allowing
him to commandeer me.
Many days go by,
and i remember
upon winning his partnership
my fanciful fibonacci
spoke his first equation
“math isn’t really my thing.”
maybe it’s no coincidence that i stand before you
a poet,
not a mathematician.