Wednesday, 4 August 2021

A Poem a Day (461): Marilyn (a found poem)


On the poetry day course I did on Saturday, one of the exercises was to compose a found poem. This was by cutting random lines out of a magazine and assembling them into a poem. You get some really abstract results. Here’s one I did today. 
 
Marilyn (a found poem)

The clue’s in the name.
All of a sudden I’m back to normal
after Marilyn Monroe died.
I wasn’t as out of it,
narrow-minded and intolerant.
It was so powerful, almost punk,
wallowing in my misery.
Summers in the countryside –
really creative, chopping wood.
He’s walking now,
just a pretty face,
the real deal.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, August 4, 2021


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