Publish or Perish Poetry

NaPoWriMo April 28: Victoria Chang’s poem, “The Lovers,” is short and somewhat shocking, bringing us quickly from a near-hallucinatory descriptive statement to a strange sort of question, before ending on the very direct statement of a “truth.” Six lines, three sentences, and to top it off, a title that I think works for the poem but is only obliquely related to its text. Today, try writing a poem that follows the same beats: three sentences, six lines: statement, question, conclusion.

Publish or Perish Poetry
by Elizabeth Boquet

There are moths
who fight with night and light.
See how the lamp attracts the obscure
and ramps up its lure only to zap?
They insist on blacking out
but all they really want is to be seen.

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