Steven Cordova
Song for the 70s
Bring back the disco nap,
the ol’ night cap,
all the love & sap.
Bring back the disco nap,
a droll chap on my lap,
some molly to put us on the map.
Bring back the disco nap,
a cold keg of beer on tap,
all the dish & flap & snap.
Bring back the disco nap.
Turn down the crap,
shut your yap & clap,
Bring back the disco nap,
(clap, clap, clap)
Bring back the disco nap,
(the disco nap, the disco nap, the disco nap…)
(clap, clap, clap)
Steven Cordova is the author of the poetry collection Long Distance (Bilingual University Press, 2009). His poems have appeared in Art & Understanding, The James White Review, Evergreen Chronicles, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, among other journals, as well as in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), edited by Agha Shahid Ali. Cordova won the 2012 International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Here is today’s prompt
(optional as always)
Write a poem that uses assonance—the repetition of a vowel sound. Technically, today’s poem uses good old-fashioned rhyme; but the rhyme is so insistent that it feels more like assonance. In assonance, it’s the vowel (or diphthong) sounds that are the same. So, if instead of using “nap,” “cap,” and “sap,” today’s poet used “nap,” “camp,” and “stand,” it would have been true assonance, because the vowel sound is the same, even though the actual word endings are not identical.