Well, aren't I prompt?

Anywho, here is your contest!

Because as of late I am obsessed with Billy Collins (as well as other random poets, watch for more poet-watching sorts of contests) for no good reason, this contest shall be centered around his poem:

Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.


~Billy Collins


What you have to do with this is simple.  

1. Write a prose poem having to do with "why you don't keep a gun in your house."

2.  Describe the gun.  What kind?  .45?  Glock? (haha...just describe it).  And please try to be original.  *sigh*

3.  Must use the words (but the words can be used in any tense you want): poison, cocoa, handprint, silhouettes, electronic and subliminal.

4.  CANNOT use the words(or any other form of these words in any tense): noisy, loud, metal, bullets, irritating, annoying.

5.  Have fun, be experimental (cuz you all must know I am a sucker for that), and amaze me...because you have had enough of a sabbatical from me reading any of your poetry.  So now you must give me your best work.  Dammit.


Yeah yeah yeah, I forgot a deadline.  SHUTUP. Ok, so the deadline is now...SEPTEMBER 10TH

So get to writing.  NOW.

YAY for poetry!  



*gets all excited and whatnot*