Go Negative: Poetry Prompt

For this week's prompt, I'd like you to write a negative poem.

I am not talking about the speaker's attitude, necessarily: the tone, subject, and theme of your poem does not have to be negative. This exercise is more concerned with diction.

Below are some ideas for how to approach this prompt.

You can:

stress what not to do, who not to speak with, where not to go, etc.

write a poem in which the speaker gives advice in the negative.

start with a negative first line and stay negative, then...