For today's prompt, I want you to take the title of a poem you especially like (by another poet) and change it. Then, with this new altered title, I want you to write a poem. An example would be to take William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" and change it to "The Red Volkswagon." Or take Frank O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter" and change it to "Why I Am Not a Penguin." You get the idea, right? (Note: Your altered poem does NOT have to follow the same style as the original poet, though you can try if you wish.)
(Byron’s ‘She Walks in Beauty’)
She walks in haughty.
An ego gone potty!
Oh dear, oh dear,
do you her fear?
She spits rapid fire.
You stoke her ire!
Her need for praise dire.
Should she a flatterer hire?
Her life in a nasty mire.
Should she her god wire?
For her songs, no buyer
Not one in this choir!
When we of her really tire,
push her into a quagmire?
Rotten thing to do sire!
Won’t dissolve her ire.
Instead, give her a lyre.
Save her from ego’s fire!
Will her pride retire?
Easier to deflate a tire?
She walks in haughty.
An ego gone potty!
Oh dear, oh dear,
do you her fear?
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ha ha very nice, funny too! went with that witty flow!
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