DRAFT each role’s lines carefully in your mind, rehearse a
DOZEN times to cement exactly how it all will go;
BLINK–the conversation derailed––revealing the hidden
JERK You refused to admit lay below.
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Month: February 2023
2023-02-23 words
DRAFT, JERKY, DOZEN, BLINK
Token Rhymes
AMAZE, inspire, entertain
MANGA-kanga, zippity-zane
BOOZY-shmoozy, quippity-quane
TOKEN rhymes I shan’t explain.
Don’t Fight the Monkey
A MAZE is a bad place to be sloshed.
TOKEN of my folly: I got to the center, picked a fight with a
MANGAbey. Never fight a monkey. (Even when on the wagon).
BOOZY ideas crumble when you’ve sobered up and are getting a rabies shot.
Where’d the Manga machine go?
So BOOZY am I, I find I’m totally
AMAZEd by the fact that when I put my tube
TOKEN in the slot, the turnstyle opens. I’d expected I’d receive
the latest MANGA by the comic artist Takahashi.
Into Time
MAN GAzes into time with
BOOZY lenses fogging his judgment:
AMAZEd at the fall from gilded yesters, yet grasping
TOKENs of hope for improved morrows.
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2023-02-22 words
AMAZE, TOKEN, MANGA, BOOZY
Any monster will do
The
FREAK, pursued by the maddened troop, foamed at the
MOUTH. Trapped at the crumbling edge of the
CLIFF-top, he paused. Time to drop, to die. The nearing
TROOP, open-mouthed, watched him tumble, peaceful, without a cry.
[Not sure what day these words belong to, but only one writer has used them so I thought I’d go all out 19th century melodrama.
And, I didn’t want to deal with TAROT!]
Trust in What is True
TRUST in what is true; in the One you
EXIST to glorify.
TAROT cards? Seers? Dismiss with a
FLAIR. They’ll mislead or even horrify.
Chaos or Order
EXIST, professed, in cauldron’s roiling brew, atoms colliding, yet
FLAIR for story, most days, has you weave sense, narrative, purpose.
TAROT’s a glitch, a wobble in your views, a hope some kind of providence is there to read.
TRUST your nihilistic cosmos, dismiss your intuition of sense. Or: invert that order and seek order?