Collector It began when three-year-old Jerry watched Father drop Mother to her knees by raising an eyebrow. His developing personhood vibrated knowing that Father could exert domain over Mother so easily. Jerry’s being glows watching Father’s sway over his congregants. He notices it is only over females — and children. He spies through the peephole,…
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dVerse Poetics Tuesday — Rancid Spam (for mature audiences)
image link Rancid SpamMake-upped face like a hatchetponderous gait like a teletubby;not cute like snowpuff Moomin,more bloated like dying whaleflopping on a deserted beach.Long beyond expiration datelike grey-slimed celery in bin.Greasy like sauteed monkey brain, contaminating mad reign,causing pain like vice-crushedfinger with no money for treatment.A focal point of angry hatredlike a big boil on…
Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along with a Limerick 242 — Shaggy Green (mature audiences only)
image link Shaggy Green Shaggy Green’s an old troll who does dwellin a cave where the leftovers smell.If he’d just wash his ass,he could find him a lass;a fresh one who won’t rot and gel. Note: I think my shadow wrote this one. Esther Chilton is the host of Laughing Along with a Limerick. This…
dVerse Poetics — Bird Feeder (for mature audiences)
Bird FeederYou’re so proud of yourself,trudging out in all weatherhauling sacks, scooping seeds,fastly passioned to our bellies;yet banshee-chasing squirrels,who, also famished, draw nearto sup. We, more worthy when, despite being adoring parents,remain steadfastly willful ostricheswhen our wobble-headed offspring with dark-pennied, yet-to-be-eyespeck until death their siblings?We, with our sharp-horned beaksand prehistoric reptilian feet,twitter at your ignorant…
New Years Eve Story — Elves and Vices (mature audiences only)
This is one I wrote a year or two ago, for one of Rory’s challenges. It’s becoming a holiday tradition to post it. New Years Eve: Elves and Vices‘Twas the night before New Year and all through da clubEvery creature was snorting to house tunes by Dub.Us Imps we were hung and we hoped to…
#FF — The Grass is Greener (trigger warning)
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast The Grass is Greener “Um?” He startles. His head swivels forward to meet her stare across the restaurant table. Her face openly reveals a potent brew of surprise, amusement, disappointment, and anger. His face adopts the long-practiced mask of sheepishness, devilishness, and charisma that she fell in love with long…
Day 13 — OctWriPoMo and dVerse OLN — The Two Harveys (and now Desperate Poets)
Harvey One Harvey the Pooka with Jimmy Stewart Harvey Two Harvey Weinstein and Olivia Wilde There are 3 selections today. First, The Two Harveys, then a freestyle, then a haiku. Again, these are for mature readers over the age of 18. One is a rabbitTwo is a snakeOne is invisibleTwo is a flake One is…
Tao-Talk 