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Spirals

Dormant

Spirals

Reaching up over

Your sunken head

Do they wish you dead or

Just not

Among the living

Instead

Instead

Trembling with

A senseless fear of guilt

Over what

Should have been

The twin

He who whilst you call out brother

Listens to sister

Whilst you cry sister

Smiles even broader

On the bed

By his window

Is that smile

An upside down reflection

Of the corners of your mouth

Let me live

Cries the whisper

Crawling among toys

Let me

Live

The spirals

Like plants

Never dormant

There is no likeness to the sun

Always

Instead

Of your sunken head

Challenge
September 2024 Drabble Challenge: A Day in the Eighties
Using exactly 100 words, tell me a story inspired by the phrase, "A Day in the Eighties." You don't need to use the exact words, just launch into a flash fiction piece that goes wherever your imagination leads. I ask that you use standard spelling, punctuation, grammar, and prose construction to spin this yarn. Are we talking about a decade? Temperatures? Old age? You decide. Please don't tag me, I'll read all the entries and pick a winner sometime in early October. Winner gets two whole dollars!
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Schnely01 in Flash Fiction

A day In The Eighties

Cocaine. She'd woken up smelling the stains of the previous night, now she was already in a fit.

Where were they? The boys who had been so loud, all gone now. The wooden floors reminded her of dust.

They had all taken turns shouting their names into the big black void, the edges of it shining on the wall. They had laughed at first, then they had stopped laughing. Then they had disappeared.

A window she opened made a noise like a pregnant cat. The air struck against her face. The leaves gently thrown off the trees. She thought: Cocaine.

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Schnely01

Come on and dwell

Come on and dwell

With her again

Writing on walls

Riding too far

Put on a shirt

Ignore where it hurts

Go do a job

Buy some donuts

They’re dancing round clocks

They forgot to turn off

Make her despise

And cast you aside

Sink as you think

A bucket of pills

Look at the bugs

What they’re whispering right now

Another place

An accident

Watch how it ends

Beginning again

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Schnely01

Rock star like me

Human seeks and death it finds

purity is missing since it's a dirty word

spitting at your spirit embracing idiocy

human seeks and death it finds

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Schnely01

The rests

Cement

dilated pupils trembling

dark materia

turning

the yellow grass growing at its sides

bending

seeking acceptance

from something as seemingly indifferent

as the seasons turning

something encompassing

the grass shooting the leaves trembling

the wind in stride the leftover darkness

caring not more than you do but

externalising the way things ought

the way things ought

as cement guarded matter

trembling stone in a raised fist

the terror sinking into black puddle

the rest as history

until it goes

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Schnely01

Dinosaur

Why would "everything happens for a reason" necessarily be a POSITIVE platitude

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Schnely01

In, by the

In, by the trunk

the rocks

a silence

not from the trees

what you are weary of

they nod

Challenge
Monthy Poetry Challenge for April.
Write your longest poem. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -String us along until you're done with us.
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Schnely01 in Poetry & Free Verse

In A Hospital

In A Hospital

In a hospital

Not much left to talk

Silence plots your king

Your queen takes everything

Or the other way around

The way it is set up

In a hospital

Not much left to talk

War deems everything

The way it is set up

As unnecessary beings

In a hospital

Not much left to talk

Silence plots your queen

The way that she’s being

Makes war seem unnecessary

Not much left to talk

In a hospital

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Schnely01

Something about stars

Something about stars, a way in which they control through description(s)... the more narrative surrounding stars, the more unreachable and near they seem

they are said, many(?) of them, to be burned out - like patients at a hospital, shining brightly many years ago, right now (but/and not all, some have perhaps yet to be created...)

are they formed, created, creators of their own - from the slight arrogance of a viewer narrating they might seem, as Shakespeare hints of, combusting in failed narrative... to be... in our faults

From a guess of sorts... they would have to be broken to be spreading light, in such way

Those shining away from earth, are likely not to be called, stars, other than by such an inclusion

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Schnely01

a few packages of beans

and no money

to eat

lights turn on as we walk through

a corridor set up by walls as echoes

turning we of me and you

loosing everything and call it new

in between commercials

where you on the ground is called oppurtunity

and them