National Poetry Month Day Twenty-Four

Prompt:  Write a poem in the form of a spell.  Include ingredients that most likely wouldn’t be used in a traditional spell, such as: tie-tack, the color blue, a coffee thermos, a tiara, an avocado, etc.  Begin by making a quick list of these “non-spell ingredients” and then decide who or what you are bewitching.  Consider titling your poem: “Spell for_____.” 

 Spell for making you look great in a swim suit

And irresistible to the opposite sex.

One half-eaten pizza, a smashed bag of chips,

Six beer cans, (four crushed-two half full),

A dead battery from a power drill,

One greasy baseball cap,

A sweat-stained Duck Dynasty tee shirt with a hole over the navel,

Two crusty socks, one used gym towel,

A pair of jeans smeared with fish guts,

Ten hairs from a dog’s butt,

A handful of spent shotgun shells,

And the prongs of one deer antler,

Put behind the seat of a Ford F-150 pickup for 13 months.

Then remove to a black trash bag

And store in the sun for three days.

Deeply inhale the essence and repeat the magic words:

“Hell this stinks! Here, smell it!”