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Why Is the World So Messy? [1]

Poetry [2]
4.18.17

Can girls be robots? How do you make water? What does extinct mean? Children have a curiosity for the world that can often inspire them to ask difficult questions like these from filmmaker Kelly O’Brien [3]’s five-year-old daughter Willow. In the spirit of childish inquisitiveness, write a poem entirely of questions. How might you use a child’s persona to explore your own concerns and wonder for the world? 


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/why_is_the_world_so_messy [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/opinion/how-does-life-live.html