Bad Poetry: Yarn That Makes Me Scream

Photo from The Twisted Yarn

There is another

Wal-Mart a few blocks

from the computer

repair shop. I went

in for some things the

first store'd run out of.

On a display shelf

out in the main aisle,

yarn! Screaming red and

battleship gray yarn

deeply discounted:

90% off!

Staff said that Wal-Mart

had found that store brand

yarn didn't help when

prices inflated

so there would never

be any more of

this yarn, in screaming

colors or neutrals.

Nobody liked when

store brand yarn seemed to

be raising prices

on the cheap stand-by.

So home, with cleaning

fluid, some groceries,

and this red yarn that

screams from the basket,

Look at me! Knit me!

Make me a blanket

that will scream "Bedtime"

to boisterous tots,

shrieking beside the

more sedate gray one,

each trimmed with other,

matching dye lots!

This week's prompt at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2024/09/friday-writings-143-what-makes-you.html was "What makes you scream?" I've never been much of a screamer, though I can manage a loud rant or even a bellow. My voice does not reach that shrill pitch easily. And I wrote a loud rant last week; I owe you something that is fun, this week. So picture me knitting a one-piec, single-bed-or-couch-sized blanket that defines the phrase "screaming color."