Resisting Arrest (A Poem for Day Twenty-One of PAD)

I've been writing on my own for this PAD challenge but thought I would post today. 

Here is the prompt for day twenty-one: For today’s prompt, write a protest poem. These poems don’t have to be political (though that’s fine–just poem nicely). My 9-year-old protests taking showers every. single. time. A student may protest a grade, or a teacher may protest grading papers that don’t follow the instructions. That said, one fun way to attack this prompt may be to take a saying from a popular protest placard and make it the title of your poem (and then, write the poem).

Too Tired to Play

Resisting Arrest

Dog tracks line
the kitchen floor.

They smell of

blindness &

rotten teeth.

They lead to stains

of a future,
     buried, like her

cherished bone.

The dog rests

on the bedroom

floor, too tired

to make it to her

(death) bed,

too tired
to die today. 

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