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W3 Prompt #186: Wea’ve Written Weekly: New Earbuds

W3 Prompt #186: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/11/19/w3-prompt-186-weave-written-weekly/

My New Earbuds

New in the box, new merchandise
Light blue earbuds, looking nice
In a case that’s hard and slightly oval
With stickers stuck, meant for disposal

Instructions come on folded paper
Unfold and read,then it is a scraper
To clean the junk off of the table
The place to keep earbuds, there they  are stable

They come with only a little charge
I think they look a bit too large
But can I hear the class I need to take
My future in earbuds is what’s at stake

©2025 CBialczak

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Dennis’ prompt guidelines

Three-Quatrain Poem About An Unsung Object

Write a poem consisting of three quatrains (12 lines total).

Your subject must be an unimportant, non-emotive object that carries no nostalgia, metaphorical uplift, or symbolic gravitas. It simply is.

  • Let the object speak in its own voice (1st person) or describe it with cool clarity (objective 3rd person).
  • Avoid sentiment, life lessons, or moral turns.
  • You may use meter, free verse, rhyme, or no rhyme: anything goes as long as the tone stays grounded and unvarnished.
  • The object should remain exactly what it is, even at the end: no transformation.

Example subjects:

  • The lint in a tumble dryer.
  • A broken office stapler.
  • The plastic seal torn off a milk bottle.
  • A creased barcode that doesn’t register.
  • The silica gel packet in a shoebox.
  • A parking meter’s coin slot after the meter is converted to pay-by-phone.

23 comments

  9. My favourite part is in the middle. Great rhythm and I like the inversion/alliteration of “stickers stuck”

    With stickers stuck, meant for disposal

    Instructions come on folded paper
    Unfold and read, then it is a scraper
    To clean the junk off of the table

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