This was an exercise we did in class where the teacher gave us a noun, we had to write 16 words that started with the same sounds (ex: "fish" and "pharmacy") and then write a prose poem telling a story about the noun we were given. It didn't have to make sense at all- just had to be about the noun, feature all 16 words (only 2 proper nouns), and have a beginning, middle and an end. So my words were:
1. pinpoint
2. popular
3. pine
4. picket
5. pounding
6. pork
7. planet
8. plaintive
9. progressive
10. pleasing
11. plea
12. pile
13. pipsqueak
14. planter
15. Peter
16. Potbelly's
And I came up with this (mind you, I did not know what a pipsqueak was):
Streaking in Poughkeepsie
The pines in the planter
was a popular gathering place
for plaintive protesting in Poughkeepsie.
It was conveniently close to Potbelly's.
People would picket and eat pork sandwiches.
Except for Peter the town pipsqueak.
Peter was the pleasing type
and hardly ever had a plaintive plea.
He often seemed on his own planet:
Peter's planet of pipsqueaks.
People gathered at the planter
and piled on the protests.
Peter looked on , his heart pounding.
He wished he could pinpoint
why he was such a pipsqueak?
But he was overwhelmed by his pleasing nature
and couldn't bear to embarrass his parents.
They were not progressive and repressed Peter's desire to protest.
Peter grew frustrated between pleasing and protesting
and after a few Porterhouse Brews
streaked naked across his podunk town
past the pines in the planter
past the Potbelly's
pas the protesters.
Who was the pipsqueak now?
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