After the equator
stood under the sun, ditches
wetten or dry out
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#Equinox
#Mastoprompt
#gutter
After the equator
stood under the sun, ditches
wetten or dry out
#dailyhaikuprompt
#Equinox
#Mastoprompt
#gutter
hearts were aflutter
charms blazing soft like butter
then tossed to gutter
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#MastoPrompt
#Gutter
@stevencudahy
#MastoPrompt Friday 20th March 2026: #gutter
@stevencudahy
From the dank, malodorous depths of the #gutter, he smiled up at the passers-by.
No help offered, needed, nor welcomed.
Most skirted round his lice-ridden, filthy body.
All wondered at his smile, which helped to sustain the smile in all its gap-toothed glory.
He had tried.
Led.
Bullied.
Cajoled.
Pleaded.
Begged.
But no one wanted to stand up for themselves.
His smile?
The abdication of all responsibility, even for himself.
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 20 March 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
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They said “These things, they don’t just happen”
They wanna know
They asked if I’m a whore
They took my dress
They swabbed my white car
I hope they're dead now
I hope they’re fucking dead now
Couch Slut - “In A Pig’s Eye”

from the album Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll
Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter
Improving the lives of people "entrenched in poverty" would be praiseworthy if this project did that but gentrification removes poverty from an area by forceable displacement of the current poverty stricken residents. The council fails to clarify how the lives of the evicted are being improved. Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people. 400 homes in Blackpool will […]https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/