#notconfusedwithketchup #napowrimo2023 #day02

 

 

#napowrimo2023

#day02

#paulcelan

#notconfusedwithketchup

Not confused with ketchup

Progeny, source not to confused with ketchup.

Offer protection from pestilence, now stabbed with jelly babies.

Their quicksilver tails can dazzle victims then drown them.

Too many times, but the cycle always repeated when I felt most vulnerable.

Sadness and lies but we keep choking it down,

hoping it doesn’t taste like feet.

Blind to abundance and chasing dishonesty,

magical thinking craving different outcomes.

Today’s prompt was inspired by Romanian-born poet Paul Celan who wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers. 

We were asked to pick 5 – 10 words from a prepopulated list.  Then to write a question for each word.  After writing the questions and answers, we were invited to remove the questions to create a beautifully surreal poem.