Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Fortune Cookie
Don’t Panic
Excellent advice except
It left out one important detail –
Always carry a towel
It has great practical value
Wrap it around you for warmth
Lie on it to bask in the sun
Sleep under it beneath the stars
Wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat
If you manage to keep it halfway clean
Dry yourself off
Don’t panic
Is not sufficient advice
NaPoWriMo Prompt Day 5 – Following Dargan’s lead, today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way. If you can use two elements, great – and if you can do all three, wow!
Good morning and welcome to day 5 of NaPoWriMo also known as First Contact Day. My math isn’t always the best, but I believe it’s only 44 more years until we meet aliens from outer space. Shawn showed me the fortune he received last night, and I told him it was missing something very important. He said, I know in bed. Umm…no not exactly. Always carry your towel. Since we were asked to use lines from an outside text in today’s prompt, I guess you could call this a found poem. If you are lucky enough to meet a Vulcan in the future don’t forget your towel. My love of sci-fi. Not too sure how much I love my husband right now, totally missing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference.
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