Promptly Poetry - Book 3

Addiction Socks

When socks can be made
on machines run for pennies a day
by people paid a few dollars per week
and sold in bulky get-one-free
bargain multi-pack bonus bags
right there at the mall,
then it isn’t economical
to make your own
to spend long hours knitting
with expensive yarn mailed
from Denmark or Turkey
or Wisconsin, rendering
tens of thousands of stitches
each requiring precision of movement
and skill to effect rescue
when one of them is dropped,
but I’ve learned saving a stitch in time
saves my mind, soothes by design
and thus, is well worth the price.


Written for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2025-2026)" 

Week 7

Prompt- a guilty pleasure