This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You may also join the program in-person at the LBI Library in the meeting room each month.
\n\nOur Promp t for December is to write a poem that takes as its subject things that do n't add up.
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\nHere's a wee bit of inspiration:
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\nCRIBBAGE LESSONS
\nby Susan Johnson
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\nThe summer Dad decided it was time
\nI learned crib\, cou nting fifteen two\,
\nfifteen four\, I loved doing the sums
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\nin my head\, tallying up the pairs\,
\nruns\, as if life were arithmetic\,
\nwhich at six it was. Going into
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\nsecond grade\, the owner of three
\nhand-me-down bathin g suits from
\none sister\, two cousins\, I went
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\nswimming five times a day and at
\nthe general store one mile a way\,
\nbought a dime&rsquo\;s worth of penny
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\n< p>candy from a woman who had to\nbe a hundred. In four years mom
\nwould have her mastectomy\; in ten
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\nshe&rsquo \;d be dead. We didn&rsquo\;t know any
\nof that then. Just that it all adds up
\nuntil it doesn&rsquo\;t. Then you&rsquo\;re skunked.\n
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\n&mdash\;from Rattle #85\, Fall 2024
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\nAs a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words sel ected at random from Alice McDermott's novel\, After This.
\nradiati ng\, framework\, siblings\, 1960's\, underpin\, charming\, brotherly\, str ap\, doddering\, bloodshot\, mop\, odd\, red-rimmed\, lock\, flesh\, waist \, Fishkill\, Denmark\, upright\, elope\, yellowed\, indecorous\, drumming \, doffing\, peas\, dainty\, tight\, strap\, pregnancy\, commiserating\, f lutter\, flashlight\, unhinged\, crumbs\, blithely\, clucked\, couch\, T-s hirt\, parable\, Christmas\, rigorous\, parishioners\, garner\, forefinger \, thick\, impromptu\, heels\, hitched\, khaki\, sinewy\, exaggerated\, di me\, clink\, mustard\, reciting\, flagpole\, portrait\, certificate\, subw ay\, skinny\, Jim Croce\, Halloween\, sleeve\, beer\, middling\, mutt\, ch uckles\, locker\, nun\, skirts\, illusionist
\nsquint\, granite\, sh apeless\, breather\, hallway\, scoured
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