I am a college professor
She is alone among the icicles
I was born in the Midwest
She was drawn from a corroded vein
I will travel to Madison
to watch the Super Bowl with my husband's family
She will be found under
a mossy rock, squirming
I go to puppy classes with my puppy Ozzy
every Tuesday
She goes down a well filled with
lava
I make a really good chicken noodle soup
She makes castles out of entrails and teeth
I have Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
She has a pocket of skin rashes from touching toads
I give my nieces and nephews
books every Christmas
She gives head to the God of Fire
The above was the opening exercise for my creative writing class...namely to write sentences beginning with the preceding subject/verb combinations revealing on the one hand, the "everyday" you (acceptable to peers, commonly known) and the writer/poet you (unknown, transgressive, vulnerable...)
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