Lists

here’s our daily prompt (optional, as always). Start by reading James Tate’s poem “The List of Famous Hats.” Now, write a poem that plays with the idea of a list. Tate’s poem is a list that isn’t – he never gets beyond the first entry. You could try to write a such a non-list, but a couple of other ideas would be to create a list of ingredients, or a list of entries in an index. A self-portrait (or a portrait of someone close to you) in the form of a such a list could be very funny. Another way into this prompt might be a list of instructions.

Since I’ve been spending a lot of time learning lisps recently, my mind immediately went there when I read the prompt was ’lists’. I didn’t spend much time on this one.

Within the budding prentheseses
A chain of addresses,
First points to self
and rest points elsewhere.

Car, caddr, cdr, cdddr, 
All leading to some memory
or some future association
along the rusty linkages of 
past and present