For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Tell It to the (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write the poem. Possible titles include: “Tell It to the Hand,” “Tell It to the Judge,” “Tell It to the Six-Foot Bunny Rabbit,” and so on.
Tell It To Your Mother
Playground bullies with bad haircuts
Secure in the Schoolyard Code
Of boys will be boys
Harass the meek with impunity
Adult bullies in expensive suits
Secure in American jurisprudence
Through superior cash flow
Keep the meek from justice
And when bullies are through with her
The meek will inherit the earth
Broken gutted barren febrile
The prize of our compliance
Enduring more than we can bear
Knowing only death is fair
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 