Onomatopoetic 

She thumb-types on the mobile’s keyboard, her nickname, short for Rebecca but it’s the Spanish version with one c and that rolling Rrrrrr Rebeca and what was her identity turns into “Be a”. Be a, be a, be a what? Be whatever she wants. 

Will she affect or effect? She will shake those hips like Slim Harpo hips, he’s also a b, a King Bee. Buzzzzzin’ all night long. Buzzz buzzz buzzz beeeee. Be a, be a, be a what? Be whatever she wants. 

She’s a rhythm and a rhyme. Two sep-er-ate beats, really sepArate. She has a hard time remembering how to divide things to create two or more from one but then she remembers it in Spanish, how separate is separado and it all comes back to her. That fourth letter of the word is not eeeeh que la, it’s wheee que la, it’s not e, it’s a. Ayyyyyy.

So she separates over and over, transforms, refines, strengthens, and grows to be a, be a, be a what? Whatever she wants. Ewe Cannes, toucan, you can, too. 

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt: Yesterday, we looked at a poem that used sound in a very particular way, to create a slow and mysterious feeling. Mark Bibbins’ poem, “At the End of the Endless Decade,” uses sound very differently, with less eerieness and more wordplay. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that, like Bibbins’, uses alliteration and punning. See if you can’t work in references to at least one word you have trouble spelling, and one that you’ve never quite been able to perfectly remember the meaning of.

From the Author: I have no idea what I’m doing but I did have fun creating today’s poem. I absolutely love words, rhythm, and rhyme. Oh, and of course, Slim Harpo, too. Thank you for reading my weirdnecessities and Happy Writing!