And failed the swimming test
They gave me a wristband red like a fire truck
A bright reminder screaming
That I was not allowed in the deep end
I fell in love again with defiance
I snuck out of the cabin that night with a girl
I had just met, and we submerged ourselves
Dunked to the serene bottom of the deep end
Rough sandy cement under our cool feet
The forbidden and chlorinated water washing our skin
It felt cool and still and soft and deep
Like it did when I kissed her in the cabin that night
There was red tape around our girl bodies and
I fell in love again with defiance
Let me make an obvious statement and say
Good things feel good
But God they feel divine
When there's something wrapped around your body
Telling you that you are not allowed this
I fell in love again with defiance
Prompt: "Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn.” This poem is a loose villanelle that uses song lyrics as its repeating lines (loose because it doesn’t rhyme). Your challenge is, like Dargan, to write a poem that incorporates song lyrics – ideally, incorporating them as opposing phrases or refrains."
Let me make an obvious statement and say
Good things feel good
But God they feel divine
When there's something wrapped around your body
Telling you that you are not allowed this
I fell in love again with defiance
Prompt: "Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn.” This poem is a loose villanelle that uses song lyrics as its repeating lines (loose because it doesn’t rhyme). Your challenge is, like Dargan, to write a poem that incorporates song lyrics – ideally, incorporating them as opposing phrases or refrains."
Took a lyric from Defiance, by The Young Veins, for this refrain!
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