Greetings friends, wishing you all extremely well! I’m a law clerk today because this will be brief. No? What if I worked for Fruit of the Loom? Still a resounding no. Luckily I cannot think of any further jermaine position titles.
Fun one today! Extremely uplifting and glorying in the greatness of humanity. And it is precisely that, just the absolute inverse.
“Something Wicked, All-Ways”, May 6, 2023.
Adrift in an impenetrable wilderness
Misplaced and misunderstood
Menacing sentinels twisting scornfully
Constrictive, damp and choking miasma
Fetid and coarse, death’s jesters
Rattling breath, sundering nerve
Diaphanous courage shreds
Before a wretched circus hall of mirrors
Caved-in and perilously worn out
Haunting agonies with no reprieve
Strangling roots procuring dark harvest
An ill, writhing, temporal bounty
Sadistically macabre, envenomed
Berths yet still lie, best ever left be.
I was extremely reticent to use “berth” and “still” together because I didn’t want it completely misinterpreted. However, after numerous permutations, it never sounded better than this original. So hopefully “berth” is still a term people are familiar with. Any sea captains in the audience?
And with that, we come to a close. I CAN be brief, despite my personality more closely resembling a “tighty whitey” mentality. In a few different ways now that I think about it. This is mildly distressing…
Happy Trails and Waggy Tales!
-Alex Blaikie
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