poetry and prose

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

A prompt is not good enough for me.

I need to be better, don’t you see?

The easy way out—too simple, for me.

My writing should be about topics unseen.

But too much pressure, and the words won’t come.

Nothing is good enough. Boo hoo. Ho hum.

But then I wait and sit and I sit and wait.

And before you know it, too much time has passed, and now I’m late.

“This is for fun!

Just give it a chance!”

Well, in that case..the place I’ve never visited, that’s close to home

Would undoubtedly be, the city of Rome.

But Rome isn’t really that close to me

I’m on the West Coast, specifically the Central Valley.

And Rome I’ve been to! I love Italy!

It’s where my great grandparents were born,

Before they had to flee.

Now I’m off topic,

Oh what was the question?

Really, this is causing way too much tension.

There’s nowhere close to me

That I want to share

Because then you could find me and kill me

Don’t you dare!

This prompt is sus

The attraction I will choose

Is the local city bus

Although it’s not much of an attraction

But at least it rhymes with sus.

So there is my answer,

Without clues to my home

Thank you for reading

My all-over-the-place poem 😁