(from the napowrimo prompt: write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its meaning. There are (perhaps paradoxically) infinite possibilities in repetition. Want to look at some examples? Perhaps you’ll find inspiration in Joanna Klink’s “Some Feel Rain” or John Pluecker’s “So Many.”)
I wanted to text
lets go to that
shit hole taco
place on Granville
but wrote shithole
instead
lets go to that
shithole taco
place on Granville
Shithole?
Shit hole?
I corrected
*shit hole
and then to clear up
any misunderstandings
lets go to that
shit hole taco
place on Granville
But because meaning
often Earharts in the
vast blue of the
Internet
(or is it the phone wires?)
I texted the clarifying statement
two words
And finally to make myself and my thoughts
known in a clarion way I texted
out to the impatient
universe
Let’s go to that
shit hole (two words) taco
place on Granville.
My friend responded
when