The Big Poetry Prize & All you Need, poems by Christine Timm

      The Big Poetry Prize

      I wrote a poem in 90 seconds
      Helen of Troy and six vixens
      they told me not to count on a hole in one
      but it was the whole pizza
      with sausage
      red paper and ribbon
      in a stripey stocking
      it took three white men in speedos an hour
      to praise it
      eight minutes to cash the banana
      but the teller told the secret
      timing is everything

      All You Need

      I wrote a book in five minutes
      Ten in and hour
      Holy Toledo!
      It’s raining idioms -
      Too many dashes on my balcony
      Emily Dickinson would need a big rake
      But I would not
      I keep everything I need in my panties
      Except the pen
      (which is) pointy and full of black ink
      but I do not need ink on my butt
      It would make a tattoo
      A weird poem on a wall
      Like bathroom graffiti
      That you read when you pee
      Except for pub-boys
      Who cannot spare an inch
      And why should they.


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