Brain Power

Using your brain

To gain power

Is always a good option.

When your family can’t afford to pay the electric bill,

Sell your brain to science

And your family can use the compensation

To pay enough on the power bill

To heat the house

For maybe one, two, or more days and nights.

That would really be “using your brain” to gain power.

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I began working on this humorous piece in a Poetry Workshop presented by Sarah Elkins.  It was the third project I began in response to flipping through the pages  of  Jennifer L. Verdolin’s Wild Connection and following a tangent from the two previous poems, Winning at Love and Sorry Guys – Size Matters.