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Tips From The Bar

Almost every week from 2010-2020 I give a prompt for poets at a bar that didn't survive the Covid pandemic.
Many of the 2011/2012 blog post titles are from the brain of Simone Beaubien.
From 2020-2023 I gave occasional prompts as part of The Saturday Night Poetry Exchange.
Though I am no longer behind the bar at a poetry reading, I'll try and make a prompt a day in 2024.
Lime Warrior Photo by Matthew R McGonagle

I Study Infectious Disease Vectors Now, And It's Very Ful...Fulf...FulfACHOO!!!

4/29/2015

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Does anyone actually go to high school or college reunions? Why? You lonely? Do you think your unrequited crush's spouse may have finally passed on, leaving him/her totally available for your super delayed advances?

Well, you're probably someone else's crush, and that person is probably even creepier than you (if that's even possible, weirdo), so prepare a conversation about your life to fend off that person at the reunion that you absolutely don't want to talk to.

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Or Wrap Yourself In Apathy. I Don't Know What You Need

4/22/2015

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Have you ever taken a job at a corporation and had them hand you one or more gigantic binders that serve as a manual for how to do a job that you find fairly obvious? Well, maybe you're just gifted or maybe you've just been in an industry too long.

How well do you know how to take care of yourself? Don't you wish, at some difficult point in your life, that someone had handed you a manual explaining proper self-maintenance?

Well, for this week's prompt write the manual yourself. Go on. You know what you're talking about, right? If you don't, I suggest chapter one's subject might be How To Learn The Confidence To Know What You're Talking About When Addressing Yourself.

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Lullabye For Introspection

4/15/2015

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Write a poem or song designed to lull an inaminate object to sleep.

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The Quaint Fax

4/8/2015

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In the store where I work on a Windows 98 computer with a monitor that remembers when Reagan was president, a post-prime-demographic customer was explaining to her great great great great great grandsomething that technology is simply moving too fast these days. Amen, Methusela.

Write a nostalgic look back about a piece of technology that became antiquated in your lifetime.

Tips From The Bar

I Study Infectious Disease Vectors Now, And It's Very Ful...Fulf...FulfACHOO!!!

Or Wrap Yourself In Apathy. I Don't Know What You Need

Lullabye For Introspection

The Quaint Fax

Brevity Is The Soul

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Tips From The Bar

I Study Infectious Disease Vectors Now, And It's Very Ful...Fulf...FulfACHOO!!!

Or Wrap Yourself In Apathy. I Don't Know What You Need

Lullabye For Introspection

The Quaint Fax

Brevity Is The Soul﻿

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Brevity Is The Soul