Your mom called.

She said to clean that nasty room.

Today’s Assignment

• Think of the nastiest, most disgusting bedroom in all creation.

• List out all the particulars.• Zoom in on all the gory details…

the lime-green bowl of mildewed mustard and discarded bits of scorched corny dogsthe damp pair of sweat socks, smoldering in the corner

You want to be as descriptive as possible

• You have 10 minutes to come up with the most disgusting room possible. A pair of dirty gym socks to the winner!!!

Say it better than your neighbor

• You have five minutes to share your ideas with your friends. See what details you can add to your list. You can not copy their ideas, only make new ones to add to your own.

Say it in a poem format

• Write out your details in line format, not as a paragraph.

• No rhyming. I mean it.

The Messy Room by Barry Lane Clothes wrestling on the floor,

the shirts and pants pinning the underwear,the socks balled and stinky,sprinkled like black olives over the furniture.

In one cornerthe mangled Barbies gatherMalibu Barbie surfs a sea of headless KenNaked Hawaiian Hair Barbie drownsin a mass of matted grass skirtwadded with the grape bubble gumthat you had tried to save.A legless Skipper has skipped her last time.

Legos crunch beneath your feet as youproceed to the unmade bed,the bed you were supposed to make every day,if you were the kind of child that made her bed every daythat put her toys awayand never drank from the cartonwhen no one was looking.