Challenge
The world around us is on fire and here I am just writing this poem. (rd 2)
Use the title as a prompt. Poetry and prose entries welcome.
Tinfoil Hat
Sickle-cell or something
You’d lost weight and you admitted it
And you smoked something too
Right before you got there
I could tell because you were kind
You looked 17 years old
And you told me aliens were coming
They were going to make you a rockstar
Somebody who was friends with Johnny Depp
You said the meaning of your name
It was “God is the King”
You told me I was “Daughter of the King”
You told me to continue my music
You knew it was all going to end soon
But you didn’t know quite how
You told me to be ready
That the galaxies were swirling together and colliding
That you’d be looking for me up there soon
You got in and started up the car with the bad backfire
And that pale horse rode off into the night
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