30/30: Golden Shovel poem #28

source: Extremists Using Twitch to Speak Out and Cash In

 

Would it feel like extremists

have taken over your home if using

reason fails to foil a twitch

toward bigotry that’s spinning tentacles to

cover your mouth, that refuses to speak

honestly, that cuts truth out

of your mouth and

roasts your defense. Bigotry takes cash

to leave your home, but it will come back in.

 

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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.