Bonus prompt: make a list of five bad omens (vultures circling whenever you leave your house or the Tarot’s Death card appearing in all of your games of Solitaire) and then make a list of five embarrassing deaths (Darwin award-worthy offings, particularly those involving hunting or masturbating). Compare the two lists; see what “sticks” or create a poem using of all the bad omens and one particularly spectacular death. Or create an epitaph for the ages—the death no one would wish on anyone. Go big, go broke, go blushing into the void.

FYI, the workshop I attended included a slow death by hungry turtle. Beware