"…teach me how monsters have monsters…"

—Franz Wright (from The Scar’s Birthday Party)

Think about who or what your “monsters” are. Choose one of them (preferably the one that scares you most). Write a poem to, about, or in the voice of your "monster” in which you try to sympathize with him/her/it by looking at the monster’s side of the story, uncovering the monster’s monsters, etc.

The full text for The Scar’s Birthday Party by Franz Wright can be found here.