Here's the last "Two for Tuesday" prompt in November:

Prompt #1: Take the phrase "Everybody says (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make that the title of the poem, and write the poem.

Prompt #2: Take the phrase "Nobody says (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make that the title of the poem, and write the poem.

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Everybody says, "We should get together."

Well. Yes. We should get together.
A little miracle it is that each moon
passes over your head passes over my head
(not so far apart - your self, my self)
but still we say, we should get together
each pushing the leaves off our path
and shoveling into the snow of the neighbor next door
not making a path quite long enough,
not on purpose stepping up to the door and knocking
"Hello!" - we say so rarely, but still we are surprised to see,
when we finally meet somewhere by accident,
that the other is aged, just a bit.
Time has passed. When did that happen?
That shouldn't happen. We should catch that
before it happens.
We should get together.
Soon.

But because we don't. We get old.
Without each others' laughter in our ears.

So we don't, don't get old.
We should get together.


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Nobody says, "How was it? Take your time. Tell me how it was."

No. Compress your life into little anecdotes, please.
That don't take too long.
That soon will bore me.
How safe you are in the telling.
Nothing ever has happened to you and it shows.
Oh this, this is funny, kinda.
Oh this, yeah.
Heard it.
How safe you are in the telling.
Nobody says, "Tell me everything, every possible detail you can remember.
Grade school. Walking home. To what? What kind of day? Tell me how you felt, that day, what day and when, knowing (how?) you had to leave your childhood behind, if not then, soon. Where is that person now?"