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  "description": "Some poems here as I catch up.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T00:00:20.000Z",
  "site": "https://raintreeruckus.com",
  "tags": [
    "NaPoWriMo",
    "I am not the only one"
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  "textContent": "These prompts from NaPoWriMo...\n\n> Today, we challenge you to write your own poem that emulates these songs – something to snap, clap, and jump around to.\n\nI can't double dutch\nSo I think up games\nwith my anxiety instead:\n\n_tell me- tell me-\nhow lost i am,\ncounting the breaths\nfrom a thoughtless slam._\n\n_how many can we turn around?\ntell me- tell me-\ntil we've found_\n\n1, 2, 3\nAnd I just keep counting until I trip!\n\n> In your poem today, try writing with a breezy, conversational tone, while including at least one thing that could only happen in a dream.\n\nAs a last resort,\nI start talking\nTo the door.\nVery quietly;\neveryone else is asleep.\nWe make fun of the cats\nUntil I have the courage\nTo ask for a relay\nUnworded\nBut it is a door\nAnd it only replies,\n\"Deep breaths, I'll open again eventually.\"\nThen it tips me away\nTo the previous floor\nBecause it has door business to resume.\n\n> ...write a poem in which you talk about disliking something – particularly something utterly innocuous, like clover. Be over the top! Be a bit silly and overdramatic.\n\nNot that they are\n_Utterly innocuous_ but\nMy irrational hatred for\nBlue Lights At Night\nEspecially LED ones.\n_I assure you I am justified in this,_\nI am not the only one.\nBecause\nHow the fuck am I supposed to sleep,\nToo bright and another thing on my mind?",
  "title": "7, 6, 5",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-08T00:00:19.485Z"
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