2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13

For today's prompt, write a self-help poem. It can be written in the style of a self-help article or book. Or you can take it in a more subtle self-help direction.

Here's my attempt at a self-help poem:

"Vegas"

What happens here stays here
except for what doesn't and

besides a city hides
beneath the city lights

in the sewer system
misplaced people find homes

tossed to the side they know
self-help means help thy self.

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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and was completely captivated by the Las Vegas "tunnel people" story (click here to read). While the story has been out there for a few years, he just discovered it a few months ago. Robert is the author of Solving the World's Problems and a former Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. He's married to the poet Tammy Foster Brewer, who helps him keep track of their five little poets (four boys and one princess) and who's been doing the challenge herself. Follow Robert on Twitter @robertleebrewer.

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Check out more poetic posts here:

• 2013 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 12. In case you missed yesterday's prompt.
• William Preston: Poet Interview. Q&A with current Poetic Asides Poet Laureate.
• Somonka: Poetic Forms. Japanese collaborative poetic form.