For today’s prompt, write a family poem. I’ve actually written a few poems about my family this month already, but you don’t have to restrict yourself to your own family. There are any number of human families, of course, but also animals, insects, and other organisms. Plus, there are “families” of other types as well. As usual, feel free to bend the prompt to your favor.
Family Planning
You can choose your family
Not your natal family
But all subsequent families
However you are not allowed
To choose just anyone
That would be anarchy
One man and one woman
Natural children or
Adoptions in the same race
(It goes without saying
That the man and woman
Must be of the same race)
I’ll rationalize it
With a book obsolete
A thousand years
Because I know what’s best for everyone
Because I will only approve of your family
If it won’t make me uncomfortable
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 