Poem of the Week: 9.8.22

Coming Soon

by Ricky Novaes de Oliveira

America’s Next Top Youth Pastor

America’s Next Top Travel Influencer 

America’s Next Top Burnout

America’s Next Top Drone Strike

America’s Next Top Young Partisan 

America’s Next Top Landlord 

America’s Next Top Cocaine Lines 
       In The Bathroom

America’s Next Top Top

America’s Next Top Bottom 

America’s Next Top Peeping Tom

America’s Next Top Bystander 

America’s Next Top Zoom Suicide

America’s Next Top Karen 

America’s Next Top Piece Of Shit

America’s Next Top Old White Guy

America’s Next Top Diversity

America’s Next Top Utopia 

America’s Next Pot Typo

America’s Next Top Private Prison

America’s Next Top Homeless Mother

America’s Next Top Institution for 
       Change (ANTIC)

America’s Next Top Assistant Quits 
       Before Getting Promoted, After 
       All These Stupid Years 
       & Pointless Nights

America’s Next Top Slut

America’s Next Top Slut 
       Shamer (the spin-off)

America’s Next Top Expert Parent 
       Despite Only Having Mediocre 
       Sex After High School Crush

America’s Next Top Employee 
With Another Job

America’s Next Top Cute 
                                    Little 
                                    Getaway 

America’s Next Top Police Murder

America’s Next Top Protest for Clout

America’s Next Top Fifteen Minutes

America’s Next Top Reckoning 

America’s Next Top Poet (canceled for lack of viewership)

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This marks the first installment of Poem of the Week.

“Coming Soon,” an original poem by yours truly, is a poem attempting to ridicule the glut of “reality” tv and consumerism by sarcastically joining in on the fun. I wrote this poem last year when feeling frustrated about the state of the world and what gets the focus. Anaphora (repetition of words at the beginning of lines) is a cathartic tool in writing; I suggest it.

Thanks for reading! Until next week. - Ricky

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