Hello!
The prompt for today is to write a poem about something that is normal and proceeds in a set and understood way, that goes haywire, but is still described as normal. I decided to take something normal like cooking dinner, but give it a twist of that dream-like surrealism. Like when you can remember your dreams, but things go weird, and it feels normal in the dream, it's only after you wake up and remember parts of the dream that you think WTF?! I wanted to capture that feeling. As for style, my brain is potato today so I went with something familiar, the haiku. Though I wanted something longer, so I used my modified extended haiku style where I alternate lines of 5 and 7 syllables. Enjoy!
Time to make dinner
what is the plan for tonight?
cook up some chicken
with rice and some vegetables
I grab the food out
the chicken is frozen still
icicles fall off
the broccoli and beans fall down
the beans are now lost
fallen into the abyss
I chop the chicken
and cook the rice in the pot
the chicken is blue
the top hats sizzle loudly
in the frying pan
broccoli is growing tall now
too big to now bite
and the fridge has run away
so hungry am I.
Thanks for reading!
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