NaPoWriMo Day 2 - Going Off Prompt
This morning when I checked in with Napowrimo.net I wasn’t keen on the prompt which was to write a poem which was a recipe. If anyone’s done this successfully I’d be really keen to have a read! (I've just gone back and reread the prompt and it does also suggest writing something inspired by a recipe which I actually might have been able to do given some thought)
And the prompt on the Poetry School website was the same as the one from napowrimo.net yesterday – to write a poem which used short lines with Kay Ryan’s as an example.
So instead I wrote something which has been an inkling of an idea for a while.
Coffee
Terraced house turned coffee shop
in the dodgy end of town
whisper it
gentrification
he’s got a list of coffees
chalked on a blackboard
I ask for an Americano
Do they do almond milk?
Can it go in first?
Prevent curdling in the mix.
He nods
takes down the jar of Nescafe
£2.40
I bite down on my Shoreditch snobbery.
His certificates in food hygiene
sit proudly behind him
and his unwavering politeness.
That night
we shuffle home
as pub quiz losers
his window’s been smashed in
we ring the non-emergency line
who seem bored by it
it’s boarded up within 24 hours
The next night
his second one’s
a spider’s web.
An English Defence League sticker
sits proudly
in the centre.
