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Title:       Other
Date:        2024-04-18
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2024_apr18_other/
Word Count:  108
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> Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which the speaker
> expresses the desire to be someone or something else, and explains why.
> Two possible models for you: Natasha Rao’s “In my next life let me be
> a tomato,” and Randall Jarrell’s “The Woman at the Washington Zoo.” 

Otherwise than this 
Is a faraway land 
A longago time 
A perplexing and terrible collection of thoughts 
A life lived more courageously

That movement over there 
Resembles the movement of a body 
It must be a person 
But I cannot be sure 
I may already be in some future time
surrounded by automatons