Absentmindedly I consider the
Bill sitting on my
Cabinet counter. I sigh
Determined to find an
Easy solution to my
Fluxion finances, though unable.
Gorgeous eyes scan my
Haughty, determined face. She
Imparts indispensable encouragement but
Jovial I am not.
“Knock it off!” I
Languish in my own
Malicious feelings toward her.
Nescient to my predicament,
Outspoken she becomes with
Patriotic fervor of a
Queen besieged by enemies
Rampaging against her rule.
“Savings,” she lightly whispers,
“Temerariously use our savings.”
Under such a weight
Vainly I acquiesced to
Wager our last capital
Xerically scrounged from nothing
Yearly saved for a
Zither.
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This “poem” (and I use the word as loosely as possible) was written by flipping to a random page per letter in an old dictionary and selecting a word on that page while trying desperately to make sense from line to line while also maintaining an acrostic of the alphabet. This is the result. I swear all these words are actual words. I cannot swear that they are all used correctly… Oh, it’s also 101 words.
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Lawrence takes a long drag on his cigarette. “The proverbial ‘last job,’” he says with wistful regret.
In the life before this one Hamid had been a cockroach. He had no memories of the previous life, but he was sure of it. His life this time was not much better. He still skittered around looking for scraps. Women would at the very least gag, if not scream at his appearance. He must have been a bad cockroach, because this current life felt worse than ever the life of a bug could be.
“I don’t understand,” Kathy confides in Jennifer, “I like Cody so I smile and laugh at his bad jokes. I want to seem interested but not too interested. He just can’t take a hint!”
Across the endless sand winded one lone set of tracks. Hendrick had stopped wondering if the desert had an end. Now he only thought of the sweet release of death.
“My darling Carolyn, we’ve been together a long time now,” John said.
