I handed him a dollar
We proceeded to the library
First I showed him videos of squalor
To convey how, to live, money is necessary
Then I showed him the most wealthy
To explain selfishness and climate change
I needed him to know this place is not healthy
His expressions went down a mountain range
When he arrived he was excited
Now a tear slipped down his cheek
Then he appeared enlightened
And said I'll be back with more like me in a week
About the Creator
J.M. Powell
You can make anything by writing. -C.S. Lewis
I'm a current undergraduate English with Track in Creative Writing major.
My passion is to spread what it means to love.
My published chapbooks of poetry: Quantum Leap Overmorrow
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Do you ever get sidetracked when writing? I do. I think it must be in the nature of the creative mind to draw connections and have a need to explore them. Since the World Wide Web became established in the 1990s, this has become a lot easier to do. The phenomenon being described as ‘going down a wormhole.’ Sometimes a distraction, but I have written some of my best work when I have disappeared down one web wormhole or another. It also happened in the days when most of my research was book based so we can't blame it on the internet. Book research was just slower. These days, guided by my AI friend, it is much, much quicker.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout an hour ago in Poets
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I found this very funny. When he returns will it be for good or bad, I wonder, Will he see opportunity for his race, or death and destruction for ours. We shall see. Very clever ending.