Day One

Okay.  This isn't Day One.  It's Day Three.  But I'm posting a Day One Poem anyway.  I won't tell if you won't tell.

According to the NaPoWriMo website this is what we were supposed to do:

NaPoWriMo Day 1

On April 1, 2011

NaPoWriMo has begun! Right now, we have 280 different websites on our list, so there will be a lot of poems to look at!
And for those of you who want to get an early start on tomorrow, here’s another prompt:

Write a poem that incorporates the titles of three books you have in your house.

Poemetizing here:


In my living room, there is a tower of beer labels--
soaked off (wrenched from) the now naked brown-glass

and pressed flat

between the pages of heavy books.

I wonder what The Alpha King has learned from
The Complete Guide to Witchcraft or what
Kentucky Breakfast Stout makes of Fanny Farmer's

recipe for oatmeal . . . 

if Polygamy Porter is truly capable of appreciating Twilight.

When they are finally embraced within
the pages of a proper scrapbook, they will gift
each other a library's worth of learning.  What will come
of educating such humble paper to great heights?  Their
conversations will turn to arguments over the existence of free will.
They will long for a god that they don't believe exists and

wonder

if suicide is the only brave thing a beer label can do.
Then they will find the vocabulary of the average Beer Advocate member inadequate.  They will say so and get themselves banned from the site.