A Prompt End
Everything was ready for the ritual;
‘Whatever you fancy?’ Stormy said.
‘Poetry, prose, fiction, factual.’
‘As long as the bastard’s dead!’
Well I pondered, peering at the body.
He was a difficult man to ignore.
The orange had certainly drained;
But getting his head through the door?
Make the world great again
I thought with a frown.
No more conspiracy nonsense.
No more orange clown.
The killing was an act of kindness
For the whole of humanity.
Shooting an act of glee;
An end to his hateful inanity.
I’d watched the blood spurt through his shirt
as he hit the dirt.
His end had been curt
But worth the effort.
So Elizabeth Jean, Stormy and me
Composed this short memorium
Before shunting his corpse
To a guy I know at the crematorium.
He’s married to an old flame
And owes me one use.
Ashes to ashes
We’ll cook his goose.
We wrote a piece upon the topic
Of the orange conman.
And how he’d met his demise
At the hand of this gunman.
‘He came, he groped, he lied,
He pandered, conned and cried
Now the orange blimp
Has whined and died!’
‘See you later, alligator!
As we feed you
Into the incinerator!’
Opher – 27.2.2024
I belong to a writing group. We meet up and greatly enjoy writing our stuff and sharing. Every month we receive a prompt with a few alternatives. It’s meant to serve as a stimulus for a piece of writing; something to get the creative juices flowing.
This month the prompt set my mind flowing down a number of avenues. In the end I thought it would be fun to incorporate the whole of it into a poem.
The prompt:
I know a guy who works in the crematorium and he owes me one use of the incinerator.
Or
He’s a difficult man to ignore, but I’m told it’s worth the effort
2. Write about an act of kindness….poetry, prose, fiction, factual…whatever you fancy.
3. Write a piece using the topic:
Everything was ready for the ritual.
I think I got it all in even if I had to slightly change some of the wording.!