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#ANGEL

This little story is a bit too long for a toot, so here's a link to an itty bitty site that supports it:

https://is.gd/Angel_by_Simone_Leclair

“I did it because I had too.”
“You had no choice?’
“No choice.”
“And you just kept going?”
“Yes. Till it was done.”

“So now what?”
“I don’t know. At first I missed them all.”
“The characters?”
“Yes. I knew them so well.”
“They were real for you?”
“Leaving them there felt like grief - at first.”
“And now?”
“Now I just feel empty.”

“But there’s always next year, right?”
“I can’t wait that long. I can’t! I have to start writing again...”

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#SCATTERBRAIN

“... so I was listening to the radio the other day and there was this show on about France so I went next door to see Mrs. Milk cos she’s got a daughter in the services and she said had I heard about Henry and I said no but I needed to borrow some sugar and when I got back I found the rice had boiled over which was OK cos we don’t like it much but then I found I’d left my keys upstairs and anyway what was I saying?”

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#FRIGHTFUL

“What rhymes with frightful?”
“Delightful? Insightful?”
“Wrong number of syllables. And hardly the same mood.”
“I dunno then. It’s your poem. Spiteful?”
“Aha! Now we’re getting somewhere.”
“So what’s the deal?”
“Well we feed on human emotions, right? Any. Good, bad, love, hate, fear - doesn’t matter. We don’t care. As long as they don’t forget us. Then we’re dead.”
“Dead? Haha! Good one...”
“Sigh... I’d roll my eyes if I had any.”

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#ADMIRE

This poem is a tiny bit too long for a toot, with all the hashtags and whatnot, so here's a link to an itty bitty site that supports it:

https://is.gd/T7P7vO

CW: POL implied (maybe)

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#MEETING

our meeting was fleeting
online in a shop
that sold clothes in a virtual
world that was top
of the list of the places
bohemians go
without getting their butts off their
couches and so
it developed and now we
are married for real
and it just goes to show
that it’s easy to steal
someone’s heart at a distance
before you have met
and a measure how lucky
we sometimes can get

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#CUTE

What should I be...
If I can’t be adorable:
Quiet and ignorable,
Or brazen and deplorable?

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#SOMEWHERE

somewhere now
a sun is setting
dream fragments
and leaves fall
blown and separated
forgotten

somewhere
dew clings
new light
new season
shocking
dawn

somewhere there’s a long horizon where one artist smudges day and night endlessly across snowy expanses and no one knows what time it is

it’s cold there
where light appears
and hope rises
i’m going to need
to wrap up
warm

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#HEAVY

I am a Heavyoceros,
I move a little slow.
I graze the plains and prairies where
Once roamed the buffalo.

I like you all to know your place:
Behind me in the line.
If you remember who’s in charge
Then things will turn out fine.

I like things as they’ve always been.
I like my status quo.
I’d like you all to disregard
Who lived here long ago.

I am a Heavyoceros,
I am a lonely beast.
They say that I’m endangered but
I don’t care in the least.

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#OPPOSITES

me as a teenager

me fifty years later