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A slip Quickly, adjust New grip Hard-pressed? Water and food Refreshed. Too slow? Check the new rules: Not so! Form: Musette It’s very tempting to throw in the towel since my last poem was submitted 14 minutes past the deadline. “Too bad, tried and failed…

Dilatory

I’ve been sitting for minutes. The bus should have been here by now. Traffic is backed up on A street. And on the C underpass, as far as I can see. A truck just rolled by and I heard a traffic report that there are…

Prompt 15/Outside In (The Voyage Out)

The dusk was saluted at the hotel by   electric hours to kill                             the peevishness of dissipation, who lay back       in long arm chairs cigarettes in hands The evening was dressed …

Prompt 16/h13- Insipience (definition)

Sit down and don’t touch. It says curse so that means? “We remove the curse!” Yes-n-no it means we don’t touch it! You leave it alone until you find the way to “spread it! Like jam!” My lord Mica, you do not want to… One…

13. The Messenger XIII

I fell in, a long time ago I’m going back now It’s like a big swimming pool I have only one desire: to dive in there Everyone surrounds me It’s hot, all this love Let’s dance all the life Until we fall All together we…

Dear Joy (on your wedding day)

Your name is Janus, and you are not really getting married. You make the right decision, today, pretending; Though the months and years ahead Will be the worst of your life, Unless the worst yet to come… What difference does it make? I am grateful…

Erasure

To be lost in thought, a walk down memory road, a lingering idea forgot, what a memory. I watched from the outside. I never got invited in, to dance and play, still on the outside. They watched. They laughed and rejoiced at the animals prayer,…

Hour 13: Puckish

Walking down streets and singing Nabbing a roll here and telling tales there I tell Old Nanny May there is dirt upon her dress And giggle while she looks I pretend to throw the dogs a stick And chuckle while they chase air   This…

My old self

Look here you are Happy Loved Doing what you want Living life on your terms Getting better With the one you love Yes you survived Dear old self We all survive at last