Friday, April 5, 2013

NaPoWriMo... Day 4



The prompt:

Our prompt for today (again — totally optional!) is a little odd, but here goes. Recently, I read an article about the Scottish science fiction writer Iain M. Banks. His books often have spaceships in them. And those spaceships have extremely odd, poetic names. Like:
Prosthetic Conscience
Irregular Apocalypse
Unfortunate Conflict of Interest
Gunboat Diplomat
Very Little Gravitas Indeed
A Series of Unlikely Explanations
Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
Jaundiced Outlook
Frank Exchange of Views
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill
Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints
Abundance of Onslaught
Refreshingly Unconcerned With the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity
A Fine Disregard For Awkward Facts

So your challenge for today is to write a poem with a title drawn from one of these spaceship names. Feel free to pick a genuine Banks, like the ones listed above, or to take one from the twitter. And if you think of your own Banks-like spaceship name title, feel free to use that!

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Very Little Gravitas:

So
serious...
she
said.

Words
that
strike
me
to 
the 
utmost.

Her
bored
eyes
bare
no
malice,
but
no 
interest
is
born
there
as
well...


know
what
it 
is
to
have
fun.

The
type
ten-
year-
olds
crave
when 
faced 
with
homework.

Avoidance
tactics
serendipitously
performed
when
parents
ask
you
to
take
out
the 
trash...

Or

When 
they 
want 
you 
to 
walk
your
little
sister
to
school
when
you
only
hunger
to 
run 
with 
the
other
boys.

The 
type
of 
boisterous
ballyhoo
that
adults 
rarely
understand
nor 
can 
achieve
without
the 
proper
amount
of 
alcohol
consumed.


know
how
to
have 
fun!

You 
just
don't
know
how
to
recognise
it...

4-5-13

Very first draft, but I'm behind in my posts. So bare with me.








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