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Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "fetch"
Fetch or Play Ball
ReplyDeleteAll sunsets contain a tragedy
The simplest yellow
The pink fleshy toll
The red delight
A few moments where time could stop
If time wanted to
Catherine Powers
April 27, 2913
Copyright 2013
Wondering if anyone got the reference to "Mean Girls"?
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ReplyDeleteSPRING CLEANING
ReplyDeleteMy dog
Our dog
She evidently doesn't quite understand Spring Cleaning
or new movies
I sat her down the other day and talked to her
She pretended to listen
- much like kids and the guy at the auto repair shop;
She took up exactly the right amount of sofa
And nodded, wagging her tail
But as soon as we left to go to the movie (
we wanted to see it on opening day
just so we could say that we'd seen
it on opening day, which - in retrospect -
is probably not the best reason to stand
in line for twenty minutes and then squeeze
into a crowded theatre, with people packed
so tight I could taste the nacho cheese
(or "not-yo cheese") the short guy three rows down
was dripping on his Metallica shirt
), she got into the trash
and dragged it all over the house.
again
again
again
again
When I put her outside
as "punishment"
she brought me a stick
She thought we had gone outside to play 'fetch'.
I'm pretty sure she just doesn't get it.
- Mike Fedel
May, 2013