Words Per Day

You'll soon lose interest in walking and talking and wearing the cap of a fool. You'll. Words: walk, talk, wear, cap, fool, you, soon, lose. Idea!: Four word poems, ten syllables per line, six lines per paragraph. Graph. Words: idea, word, poem, syllable, line, paragraph, per, graph. The night I wrecked my father's car necking with my date after the dance inching forward into traffic foot tapping the brake like an ********. Words: night, car, father, wreck, date, dance, neck, traffic, inch, foot, tap, brake. The USFS issued paper sleeping bags like tissues during forest fires and fed us steak and pop. All you could eat. Words: paper, bag, sleep, tissue, fire, steak, pop, eat, food, forest, us. Things hurt. Pain is a message to shut up and slow down. Breathe deep, take care. Wait and see. Words: hurt, pain, shut, slow, breathe, care, wait, see, deep, message. Just as the war in the Iliad goes back and forth according to Hector's fortunes, so does marriage and a truck in mud. Words: just, war, back, forth, fortune, marriage, truck, mud. Fear destroys the last free assessment of life. But what is there to fear. Death is most of all like sleep. Death is but a dream missed. Words: fear, free, assess, destroy, life, death, sleep, dream, like, but, miss.