JIM McCRARY

(This feature is part of TRUCK’s Theme Issue on the List or Catalog Poem. You can go HERE for an Index of the Participating Poets.)

Twenty Ways To Write a Poem

Meditate

Nap

Dream a dreamy dream

Beg

Borrow

Steal

Revise

Refuse

Reduce

Recycle

Pray

Scream

Open a window

Close a door

Shut it off

Shut it down

Scoop it up

Dish it out

Question

Start Again

Say you will quit

Don't quit

Give up

Give in

Give away

If all else fails...submit

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Jim McCrary when he wasn't old: