Your Complimentary Poem

 

This poem is free; take it

however you want, making

its abstractions suit your wedding

divorce break-down triumph

long journey into the night or

creative writing assignment

due in an hour.  A concrete image

is not here.  Any simile

is like something you’ve heard

about a thousand times already.

 

This poem agrees what you’re feeling

is what it’s feeling too.  It’s a lot

of feeling, but in a general

kind of way.  Universality

is what makes this poem

get so many likes.  It feels

so seen!

 

Take it easy, complimentary poem:

you can’t have an undertone

when you are generated

from homogenized fragments of poems

throughout recorded human history.

But you can rhyme and switch point of view.

You do you.

 

 

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[prompt: Write a poem that is pretending to be something else, a set of instructions, a recipe, a letter, a news report, etc.]