#SampleSunday – poem – Felony

All you fiction writers out there — yeah, I’m talking to you — yeah, you know what I’m sayin’.

Felony

by Marian Allen

If I blunder into the dark alley

of my past, my experience,

I meet myself there,

a masked thug,

lying in wait

to rob myself

of plain coin.

Honesty is helpless

before the twin fists of

encoding and indirection.

I am a martial artist

at telling what was

as it wasn’t,

shifting value

from one pocket

to another.

A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: Write about something that affected you very strongly, but set it in another place and have it happen to somebody very different.

MA