Write your obituary, we tell them,
tell us where you will have been,
what you'll accomplish before you die.
How macabre.
Did any return terse rejoinders,
I died on the way home from
school right after turning in
this assignment?
Who would write of how life
mistreated them before they
passed penniless, unloved,
unremarked?
How many describe lives of
quiet boredom until their
children step in to forcibly
relocate them?
Has one assignment been
collected which did not mark
something which belonged in
the news?
How much worse would it be
to direct them to write fantasies
correcting everything wrong
up to now?
77/100
100 poems in 100 days
all the voices in my head 