Month: May 2024

See This?

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RDP Thursday: BADGE

AI Artwork By: CURSEJOURNEY

When you are told not to laugh or smile to ‘big’

because you look and sound like a ‘screeching monkey ‘

and do you want to look like a monkey in the zoo?

The answer will be no.

So you won’t laugh or smile ‘too big’.

 

Ever.

 

You will learn to wear a paper mache mask every time you go out into the world

sporting the expressionless  visage of a corpse

worked on by a Funeral Director who  slathered and coaxed

liquid makeup and soft fine powder over cool and uncooperative skin

until something faintly resembling a face appeared under their hand.

I wear my mask, stapled to my skull

with grim determination

when I step out of my door

and into the world.

 

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I’m not thrilled that in these times we all want, crave need be labeled so I almost passed on this prompt.

But I didn’t because it’s a fair question:

WP Daily Prompt asks: Are you a leader or a follower?

If you are a loner like me, then you know that you are both a leader and a follower.

I know that sounds like I am a bit on the wishy-washy side but at the end of the day I strive to be the person my dog thinks I am so I figure I am hitting that mark so if my dog could talk I am confident  he would tell you straight up that I am not wishy-washy  and that if you hang around me I seem to know where I am going and how to get there.

 

 

How Sweet It Is

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WP PROMPT: List Your Five Favorite Fruits

Alnwick Garden- Photographer Unknown

When I think of my favorite fruits, I think of the fruits of my labors-

I think about the time I put into reading and studying so that I can be a better writer.

I have even learned about art because I find paintings and drawings to be inspirational and in that I figured I should

know how these works came into being and who brought them forward.

I’m not famous, I’m not even that good but my blog has been up and running for over 10 years.

You might not think that because these fruits are not full of sugar and sunlight that they are not sweet.

But they are.

 

Out of Step

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I  thought it was okay  for me to be off beat, quirky and a little bit unusual and I even said so.

Some of the people in my life agreed, but most of them said I wasn’t offbeat or quirky. I wasn’t even really unusual.

I was just wrong and stupid and stubborn and  it would behoove me to get myself together if I ever wanted to fit into the big wonderful world we lived in.

Lucky for me I was screw up and never succeeded in making myself like everybody else.

For real.

I dodged a bullet there, didn’t I?

AI Artwork by: CURSEJOURNEY

RDP PROMPT: OFF BEAT