This week's SPU Poetry Contest (@poetrybyjeremy/spu-poetry-contest-2-announcement) challenged us to write a brand new poem based on an old one. It could be a rewrite, or it could be a completely new poem that uses the old one as a point of departure, as inspiration. I chose to write a brand new poem inspired by an older one.

You can find the poem I used as inspiration here: @bennettitalia/the-daily-poem-12-welcome-a-repost-as-part-of-the-spu-poetry-contest-week-2

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Dislocation

He'd become accustomed
To waking up every morning
Next to someone else's wife
Climbing out of someone else's bed
Washing his face
In someone else's mirror
Cooking and eating someone else's breakfast
And greeting someone else's day
With the same thought:

This isn't so bad.

I can do this.

And perhaps
Had he been someone else
He could.

SPU Poetry Contest #2: Dislocation

Dislocation