NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 29 prompt: In a poem, compare your everyday present life with your past self, using specific details to conjure aspects of your past and present in the reader’s mind.
It all started
this morning.
I used to was,
now I’m not;
I could
then I couldn’t;
I used to run,
now I walk;
I used to smoke
now I’d choak.
I used to be,
but now I am;
I used to have,
now I haven’t;
I did,
but now I don’t.
And like Auntie Alice said,
I cannot go today,
my mouth is dry
and I don’t know why,
and my hip hurts
and my lip blurts,
when I look over there;
my neck is sore today,
because of what I did yesterday;
Any kind of hair I’ll take
because mine has gone
and I won’t do fake.
My skin had freckles
that I traded for wrinkles,
and my toe hurts on Tuesdays;
And my eyes are red
and like she said,
“It’s no use going back to yesterday
because
I was a different person then.”
Our Literary Journey 
I am so sorry I have been remiss. Time got choaked (loved the olde spelling) and nothing I can do about it! Wonderful take on this prompt, Bill.
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Thank you, Dale. It has been an April. 🙂
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It has!
And thank you… I received a lovely gift today!
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🙂 It’s a tradition. Hope you’ve read it. (although some will be familiar to my biggest fan.)
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I like this tradition!
I have not – yet. I just received it yesterday. Man, the envelope went through hell but the book is intact!
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It’s prolly cuz y’all are so (rightly) pissed at us. 🙂
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Stop it! Not all of us against all of you…😉
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I know. But it takes a lot piss off the Canadians.
What bothers me most is that of US voters, 55% of men and 46% of women asked for this. That troubles me. I am ashamed.
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That it does.
I understand you feel troubled. You should not feel ashamed for something you did not choose.
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Should or should not, it is how I feel.
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I hear you, mon ami
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