30/30: Golden Shovel #15.1

 source: With Earnings Soaring, Banks See Boom Ahead

The rich kids invited their friends with

large boats, large cars, and larger earnings

to a private party in the Rockies. Soaring

balloons floated high over a pristine lake whose banks

glittered with gold dust. Who could see

that the good times, the expected boom

would implode, leaving many to face doom ahead.

 

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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.