For today’s prompt, write a self-portrait poem. Pretty straightforward, right? That doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of room for creativity. Just look at artists and their self-portraits; there’s a lot of differences in the self-portraits of Kahlo, Schiele, Dali, Van Gogh, and others–and not just because the artists look different themselves.

Self Portrait

It just needs a little editing
Take some off the gut
Fill in the thinning hair
Unrecede the hairline
Smooth the wrinkles around the eyes
Too much grey in the beard
Just leave some at the temple
To look distinguished

It’s my own fault
For not dying young