Friday, April 2, 2010

Odd, but fun, so I played

At ReadWritePoem, day #2's prompt is as follows: 

If you love acronyms as I do, your mind has already shortened “Read Write Poem” into “RWP.” But the three letters RWP form known acronyms for at least 31 other phrases, including “Random Weird Person” and “Right Wing Pundits.”

Today’s writing prompt is to type the letters RWP into the abbreviation search field at Acronym Attic and write a poem inspired in any way by one or more of the resulting phrases. You don’t have to use the words from the phrase in your poem, but you can if they fit. GLWI (Good Luck With It)!

(All ritual apologies apply -- just sneezed it out, didn't edit it much, it's a first draft, etc., ad nauseam)

RWP
My father’s initials
on regular white paper
which must be excavated
from piles in his office
by a dedicated research working party;
office and house
rife with photos –
restful work, photography;
retired with pension now, he pursues
a reduced workload program,
except the taxes,
which he still insists upon doing himself
which he still insists upon postponing perpetually
until my mother threatens to put him on a
resource watch program
(a.k.a. restrictions will punish);
he adheres to a right wing policy,
much to my chagrin, which,
in turn, chagrins him;
he is a really wacky person,
but I’d still like to send him
reeling with pride.

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