Kyle Montrel March 30, 2022 Int Poetry Writing Workshop 22EW4
5-1: Disrupting the Narrative
20.) Autopilot: Trying as hard as you can not to think or consider what you are writing, write as much as you can as fast you can without any editing or concern for syntax, grammar, narrative, or logic. Try to keep this going for as long as possible: one hour, two hours, three hours: don't look back don't look up.
Tornado Warning
The entire city is under warning
Living in the same city that once was under water
New Orleans should be renamed Atlantis
Thundering tragically towards my home in madness
I'm slightly afraid as the news reporters speak
Four days apart from the news saying the same thing
New Orleans never had to deal with tornados, just hurricanes
We must be in Kansas, because I swear that my city is not the same
Maybe it's the balance of the universe
Maybe since we had mardi gras this year
Tornados are meant to happen to us.
Or maybe it's because of the old lady that lost her life
Maybe we're paying for all the theft and murder at night
My city is in desperate need of a cleanse indeed
It seems to me the things happening are for a deeper reason
And God is tired of all our nonsense, I have no idea
Of why we're all alive still. I feel for my city
and I respect the power of mother nature
My family and I are in the midst of watching lives being shaken
Abruptly without a warning, the way that whether works
In New Orleans the sun and rain tend to join forces.
For every action there is a reaction from the above
In the eye a this tornado, it's blissful
I feel the love.