30/30: Golden Shovel poem #26

source: Conspiracy Theorists Cavort in Messy Recount in Arizona

 

You know who’s really behind the conspiracy

That there is no conspiracy. Problem theorists

Devise reasonable ideas, but ordinary people cavort

Under the sign of Saturn, bleeding curses in

With eye of newt. There are no messy

Side-effects with this dose, only a recount

Of moon rays as they drip into the ocean, in

Tremors that shake the canyons of Arizona.

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.