Balancing Act

Balancing Act

Killing Time

a rough draft of a poem, from today's generative workshop, FUNNY HA HA: Writing Hilarious Poems with Jill McDonough at the Roxbury Poetry Festival

Jun 27, 2026
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Today at the Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA, I scribbled down this rough draft during the generative workshop, FUNNY HA HA: Writing Hilarious Poems with Jill McDonough: free writing, non-sequiturs, quoted dialogue, wacky observations, inappropriate asides, slang, and storytelling techniques to sound like our hilarious selves on the page.

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