Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
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Wednesday was the first open mic of the month. Hurricane Ida was raging, which no doubt affected some people's connectivity (sorry, Chris Fitzgerald). But we had old and new names alike. It was fun. The poem below reflects the poetry manifesto-heavy open mic with a touch of recent news here and there, including the story of Caleb Wallace. It's more silly than morbid, but it's the poem that I had to write.
Poet's Petty Revenge
What's the difference
between a wake and
between a wake and
a poetry reading?
Poets get to choose
when they, the center
of attention, are taken away.
