April - NaPoWriMo - 29
There’s a column at the edge of the newspaper Where the news it quite over the edge And entertainment truly wedges More than a foot in the door. They hedge it in With wider columns and pictures that hide it away But each day I open the page and search inside Eager to read the strangeness it says and the curious view That it gives to my world. The paper’s unfurled Stretched over dishes and plates on the table. I’ve wedged That column at the edge between cereal and juice ’cause it wakes me up more pleasantly than the news. Written for ReadWritePoem #29 front page news