NaPoWriMo 2016

 

Day Twenty Eight

 

The prompt at NaPoWriMo today was to write a poem

that tells a story backwards, therefore, the first line should

say what happened last.

 

Here’s mine:

 

SHE HATED

Finally she pulled the trigger and walked away  

She hated them all with a vengeance

The alley cats that rooted through trash cans like bin dogs

The fat cats that came over her neighbour’s wall

The wild cats in the shed at the bottom of her garden

Anything to do with cats she hated

But only because they made a lot of noise

Of course she hated children more than adults

In reality Betty was the archetypal curtain twitcher

To protect the innocent or so she said

On her home computer she would change all the names

She would type it up from the shorthand later

Everything went into her reporter’s notebook

She had to write everything down

She couldn’t help herself

She wrote things on a postcard sometimes

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