POW PROMPT 6

Write a cento poem based on the poetry of either Shakespeare or Charles Bukowski. If you are feeling super surreal you could write one combining Shakespeare and Bukowski. Enthusiasts
could try one of each!

A cento poem is a collage poem. You choose lines from various poems and create a new poem from it. Ideally the lines should fit seamlessly together to produce a homogenous piece.

Please name the poems from which you derived your lines ( to impress us! )These are such fun to write and the results are often amazing! Oh no, I can hear all the moaning already across the Pacific. Look...just think of all the good new poems you get to read. Miss Pommeroy knows best!

'' blue bird" is probably Bukowski's best known poem but I like this one as well.

"the great escape"
listen, he said, you ever seen a bunch of crabs in a
bucket?
no, I told him.
well, what happens is that now and then one crab
will climb up on the top of others
and begin to climb toward the top of the bucket,
then, just as he's about to escape
another crab grabs him and pulls him back
down.
really? I asked.
really, he said, and this job is just like that, none
of the others want anybody to get out of
here, that's just the way it is
in the postal service!
I believe you, I said.

just then the supervisor walked up and said
you fellows were talking.
there is no talking allowed on this
job.

I had been there for eleven and one- half
years.

I got off my stool and climbed right up the
supervisor
and then I reached up and pulled myself right
out of there.

it was so easy it was unbelievable.
but none of the others followed me.

and after that, whenever I had crab legs
I thought about that place.
I must have thought about that place
maybe 5 or 6 times

before I switched to lobster.