Day 28 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2023

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo suggestion: “here’s our daily prompt, optional and once more taken from our archives. . . . I challenge you to write [an] index poem. You could start with found language from an actual index, or you could invent an index.” Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “take the phrase ‘You Are (blank),’ replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles might include: ‘You Are My Only Hope,’ ‘You Are Really Pushing It,’ ‘You Are in the Wrong Room,’ and/or ‘You Are a Poeming Machine.’” An abecedarian poem today, by necessity because of the index mode. Both prompts as well. You Are Lost adrift, 29, 45, 98 astray, 1 Atlantis, 84-91 Babylon, 63-71 Barsoom, 21-24 befuddled, 105 castaway, 93 disappeared, 2 discombobulated, 73 down the drain, 11 drew a blank, 56, 64, 99-102 exanimate, 88 fallen between the cracks, 98 gone, 48, 72, 176 hidden, ix invisible, 0 Jumanji, 179 Kadath, 43-47 kiss goodbye, 17, 153 Lilliput, 105-09 missing, 124, 132 Mordor, 166-172 Macchu Pichu, 78-83 nonexistent, 0 off-course, 68 out the window, 2 perplexed, 8, 62 Pompeii, 51-55 quandary, 96 R’lyeh, 26-28 Shangri-La, 93-97 thunderstruck, 9 Tír na nÓg, 183-89 unaccounted for, 29, 96, 153 voodoo, iii vanished, 57 wayward, 74 without hope, 160 Xanadu, 156-59 Yuggoth, 28-32 Zathura, 180 —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Alan's poem is also an abecedarian poem . . . an interesting exploration of the 1990s. You Are Desperate: Quotidian Items Listed in the Index for Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s Sex for Dummies (1995) Africa, 136-37 America Online (AOL) 256-57 anticipatory anxiety, 295 appearances do count, 360 Beverly Hills Hotel, 138 camping, 139 changing diapers is sexy, 364-65 Compuserve, 257 cooties, 279 Desert Shadow Inn of Palm Springs, 138 doing things with your spouse, 115-16 doormats, 61-62 e-mail, 258 English-speaking countries, 135-36 Europe, 135-36 flat moment, 307 friendships, 51-52 gigolos, 373 Hawaii, 134-35 hydraulic prosthesis, 297 icons used in this book, 5-6 Israel, 136 jacuzzi, 162, 250 kissing, 161-62 Las Vegas, 137-38 local motel, 139 Maho Bay Campgrounds, St. Johns, 134 minitels, 255 modems, 257 newsgroups, 258 outercourse, 179-80 Pocono Mountains, 137 Prodigy, 257 pubic lice, 279 radio and sex, 263-64 Stern, Howard, 264 stuff technique, 294 time-wasters, 62-63 TV and sex, 264-65 two-career family model, 113 U.S.A. vacations, 137-38 vacations, 133-38 vestibule, 33 virtual reality, 260 World Wide Web (WWW), 258 X-rated photos, 259-60 you can’t hurry love, 361 —Draft by Thomas Alan Holmes    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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