It was one of those gray but somehow bright-skied New England Wednesday mornings that made you sad for anyone who wasn't there. Fall freshness demanded my attention, like a hungry pet, from every open lattice-window in our stuffy common room.
As I watched, for a marvelous moment, the world was a cartoon whirly-gig. Trees, writhed, animal-like, to be free of their multicolor leaves, shedding them - like bad blind-dates. The four-color debris was immediately drafted away on gust-streams, those invisible elves, and politely scattered in corners.
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'Urban Dictionary: love jones An Attraction for someone; you're feigning for them in every way...physical and mental' Anais, the only typo I found is in here: 'to hold up and pretend read' ;) bri BRAVO! ! ! !
I like: 'the sun that briefly pierced the clouds and decided to stab her fiercely in the face.' BAM!
.....oops. I think most of THIS comment just got sent prematurely. Drat. /// As I was saying: go aks Yale's PHILOSOPHY professors about that question. Ha! Ask Biden, the CIA, Homeland Security, and everybody else. I ain't doing nothin' to ease tensions worldwide.
This is one of the 'Questions of the Century': 'And are we (mankind) going to take any real, steps to address these issues? ' Go to Yale'
I don't think anyone knows what to do - exactly. Thanks for all the wonderful comments!
Your testimony re 'Catholicism', if true across the board, is a good shield perhaps to temper the blows received in life. Hail Mary! ! ! stanza 5 is brilliant; did I write it? bri
Bri, you're a good audience - can we clone you please? Pretty please? ?
Another laugh I got at 'like the best credit cards', a LOUD laugh. I give poem 5 stars before I finish reading poem. ;)
That makes me so happy - so much of the time I'm trying to be funny but it doesn't always hit
My older, & only, sister married a Catholic (a Roman one) and my Mom cried at home, I think a day before the wedding, I think because our 'Lutheran' family was to be Catholic-tainted, ha ha! My brother-in-law died shortly before my sis's 50th anniversary.; (
stanza 2: I like, esp., the phrases 'bad blind-dates' and 'invisible elves'. And, later, I laughed at 'I was raised a Catholic, so I rightly deserve whatever bad thing's going to happen.' bri ;)
A(a) nais, will you write a book on you, college, and Peter et al some day? ? ? ? I suspect it would be a Best Seller. ;)
At first, I was going to be a concert pianist - but covid (and a broken finger) killed THAT - then I wanted to be a writer but ultimateky, I fell into the family business