From ‘For Desire’ by Kim Addonizio
To hell with the saints, with martyrs
of my childhood meant to instruct me
in the power of endurance and faith,
to hell with the next world and its pallid angels
swooning and sighing like Victorian girls.
I want this world. I want to walk into
the ocean and feel it trying to drag me along
Your prompt (fill in the blank! Keep writing until something lands. If stuck, begin by repeating bits of
the poem):
“To hell with____________, I want _________________”