About Alexandra Heep:

Alexandra Heep is a longtime writer, chronic over-thinker, and recovering content mill survivor. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and online platforms where words are still respected. She writes children’s books, health reflections, and the occasional blog post laced with humor and hard-won honesty. After years of illness, detours, and navigating the noise of modern wellness, she returned to writing with the firm belief that stories—like people—don’t have to be perfect to matter. She publishes under multiple pen names and drinks more goat milk than you’d expect.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Landay for NaPoWriMo Day 19

Today's prompt on the NaPoWriMo website was to write a landay (a 22-syllable couplet [9 + 13] that generally rhymes). The prompt on their FB page was to write a poem starting with the last sentence of one's poem from the previous day. So, I combined both. (The last sentence of my poem from yesterday was "We choose.")

We choose even though we like to say
we had no choice. It's about the least resistant way.

See, one of my biggest pet peeves is when people justify an action by saying "I had no choice." There is always a choice: Yes or no, left or right, up or down, in or out, etc etc. I think saying "I had no choice" is simply a cop-out for not wanting to accept the responsibility for a difficult decision.



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