National Poetry Month Day Twenty-Nine

Prompt:  Make a quick list of the following:  2 foods you ate last night for dinner, the topics of your last Facebook post or tweet, 2 foreign words or phrases, 3 adjectives you associate with “deadline,” and 1 memorable movie line.  Now use this list in a ten to fifteen line poem.

 Carefree Curves Ahead

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

How she got in my pajamas, I don't know.

She wanted me to take a photograph.

“Do you like this look?” She asked, smiling for the camera.

“It has a certain je ne sais quoi.” I answered.

“Does the plaid make me look fat?”

“Uh, mas o menos.”

She looked at the stress on the seams.

“Maybe I shouldn’t have had that burrito with salsa.”

I glanced at her with anxiety when I realized

My pajamas fit her pretty well.

“Maybe we can run a 10k together later.” I suggested.

Nah,” she chuckled.

“Who needs the hassle?”