For today’s prompt, take the phrase, “100% (blank);” replace the blank with a new word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem.
100% Water
In the dream
the usual high waves
threaten, boringly.
and a guide emerges
enthusiastically indicating a tunnel
of water
through the water
an easy way through.
I can see all the way through
- a very clean channel
out to the depths
I can swim well enough but
I think ahead and don't
want to be touched
by fish or fins or limbs or scales
or teeth
not underwater
The guide says, "Inevitable. So don't go"
and so I don't go.
I stay behind and clean a sitting room
using way, way, way too much water
pushing high stacks of water off the chairs
with a useless broom
And when people come for lunch
I am still there
waist-high
serving water
drying the tables with a wet towel
asking people, one by one,
"Thirsty?"
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