Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #35
where our inspiration word is “foreign”.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

the gym
healthy eating
at the office by 9:00
taxes done before the deadline
concepts
that seem
completely alien to me
like advanced calculus
or “just one drink”
foreign
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