Challenge
Random topics: holidayS edition.
dear Theprosedotcomnicks! it is a weird time to pop your head from under the rock. and whatever you do, it's more than likely a mistake. but you have a choice now, to put to right all those wrongs! Or you could do the rendii. up to you.
choose all, some, a few, one, or none of the following topics.
the topics are : 1) Joe Pesci learns about Christmas at the Monsanto cloning facility.
2) i really hate when___ 3) the big van Gough conspiracy. 4)when Jaffar was learning to read. 5) zippers that go three ways.
6) the contents of the pockets of Georges-Louis Leclerc (the cont de Buffon)
7)shplotzery in the holidays.
8) understanding Corsica in the age of uncertainty.
9) archipelago mapping for begginers.
10) punchcard machines in the north pole.
11) darkned glass slabs
12) ribbons on men's pants and troubling trends in pitchfork designs.
13) an unitemized list of building materials.
14) packets or packquettes, baggets and bagguettes.
15) the birdfeader soars again
16) one here amongst us doesn't know his 'besides' and 'beside's.
17) the rock-hard certainty of auxiliary media rooms.
18) an abridged history of the Lilliputian nation.
19) you're only as young as your eel.
20) hard truths in the Ponderosa.
21) the gentle, caresses of the scouring pad.
22) Sebastian's favorite sandwich.
scoured
the shower water
is too hot
a burning that is only soothed
by the gentle caresses of the scouring pad
that scrape away
the layers of agony
until i am red and raw.
i trade
one burn for another
a bargain struck with the gods of fire
and while i no longer feel the shower,
i imagine i can feel bone
like i've taken
steel wool
to my skin
and scrubbed myself away
into nothing.
i find the concept
soothing.
the idea that a sponge could
clean me away just as it scrubs
oil from pans.
the scouring pad
is my only love
and its touch is all i need.
until the next shower
when we'll be reunited
under wet streams of fire
and cherry-hued skin
that goes white
with pressure.
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