Although I have a Master’s degree in creative writing and have been published in various poetry journals, you wouldn’t know it from some of my poetry.
The other night I lay in bed wide awake at 2 a.m., thinking about a poem. I got up and went to the computer. Here’s the poem I wrote:
401K
You contribute
to your 401K
again
and again.
You watch
as your money
earns interest.
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Often, my silliest poems are about food. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 