Library Prompt II
2024-04-10

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At the writer's club, Jett, and there are more
people here than I bargained for.
More one-timers that will disappear
next month when there are no guest speakers.
Jett, I'm supposed to query
you for this writing exercise:
how do you decide
what things to be wary
of and what to accept as true and right?
What criteria do you abide by?

Guest author looks me in the eyes
and says, "No poetry,
but any genre of prose is fine."
I'm sure you'll come to understand my iniquity:
you *are* a published writer of crime.

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