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If they’d asked me…
…to be one of the poets at the CBC Poetry Face-Off I attended last Friday, at which all the poems were based on the word “flight,” I’ve been wondering, what would I have written?
Something like this, probably…
FLIGHT
They asked me to write about flight.
I wonder, can this be quite right?
I sit in my chair–
I’m going nowhere–
No flight. No, I just sit and write. Right?
I’m sure I could have beaten the actual winner,
Robert Currie. What’s the Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan got that I ain’t got?
Besides the ability to write decent poetry, I mean.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2009/02/if-theyd-asked-me/
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1 comment
Liked the poem! Sounds like something that I’d write.