(NaPoWriMo Day 8)

The prompt from napowrimo.net today was not enough for me: "in your poem for today, use a simple phrase repeatedly, and then make statements that invert or contradict that phrase."

I decided I'd take the idea of simple phrases repeated and write a Pantoum.

I also decided to make that a little more interesting and add a prompt I found on instagram from hergreyside_ namely to use a Fyodor Dostoevsky quote as your title.

My quote is from Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella, Notes from Underground. It is a cynical, bitter, ironic line about existential despair, where comfort is prioritized over the collapse of the world.

In the day after an actual real-life president casually threatened to destroy an entire civilization, it seems appropriate.

So the quote title, simple lines repeated, in a pantoum form.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea

I drink my tea.
Then I make the next one.
The button's pressed.
Soon it will boil over.

Then, I'll make another one.
After all these threats,
soon it will boil over.
Will this all end?

After all these threats
it's finally here.
Will this all end
as the sky burns?

It's finally here.
The button's pressed.
As the sky burns
I drink my tea.