It bleeds up from a brackish bog,
bearlike and bat-faced,
breath of a basilisk.
It bumbles into a basilica,
battling, brawling, breaking bones,
burning, brutalizing human beings.
Until a brilliant boondocks boy
breaks into a brothel’s basement,
and among the bodices and bikinis,
he burgles some bagpipes
which boisterously bewilder
the beady-eyed brute,
banishing it back
to Below the Beyond!
For today’s prompt, write a B-movie poem.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
Fantastic and great fun Bartholomew! ☺️
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Thank you, Gypsie!
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Most welcome Bartholomew! 😊
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Clever! I saw that prompt and couldn’t imagine how you write a poem for it but you nailed it!
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Thanks! It probably helped that my initials are BB.
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Well done, Bartholomew. 👏👏👏
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Thank you, Jai.
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Always my pleasure. 🙂
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bodacious-ly backseat and backlot Burbank.
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Blessings, buddy!
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Bafflingly breathtaking!
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Very beneficent of you.
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Alliterative genus. Well done.
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You’re too benevolent. My old paperback dictionary did the work.
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Hahaha that’s a great B poem!!! Great Work!!!!
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Let’s hope I don’t have to write a C poem!
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Hahahah do it
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I’ll consider that a backup prompt if none of the other sources inspire me.
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Good plan!
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Beautiful brilliant because.
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All because of bad movies. Thanks!
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Definitely a B poem! :) Fun.
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Thanks, Susi B.!
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