NaPoWriMo Day #10

Today's prompt: "Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on one of the curious headlines, cartoons, and other journalistic tidbits featured at Yesterday’s Print, where old new stays amusing, curious, and sometimes downright confusing."

Today's poem is inspired by this post: https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/742694113060732928/yesterdaysprint-the-topeka-daily-capital

Past Reflections

I look at old photos of myself and turn 

away, ego decaying 

like paper 

in the flame of shame.

Why?

She was young and in love with the world

and putting a name to her place in it.