For today’s prompt, write a city poem. The poem can take place in a city, can remember the city (in a general sense), be an ode to a specific city, or well, you should know the drill by now. City poem: Write it!
Sweet Home Chicago
Down the block from my apartment
Was a dingy grocery
Wares stacked to the ceiling
Aisles too narrow for those
Of Midwestern “bearing”
But I loved it
Being just a short walk away
And open any hour
I was likely to need
Anything
There was a small coffee shop
Just under the El station
That offered homemade donuts
For my morning commute
On the rails to the Loop
Another block past the El
Was a vegetarian cafe
Outdoor seating under city trees
A fresh harvest transformed
Into omelets and burritos
The only place I frequented
That wasn’t within walking distance
Delivered stuffed pizzas
It took ninety minutes
And was worth every one of them
Instructing Chicagoans in
Delayed gratification
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 