When we built our hearts together,
Shared columns running through them both,
I didn't understand that the
#Architecture was really
Designed for one to leave and
The other to crumble.
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We would run to the park from our house, our mother unbothered by the multi-lane roads and invisible crosswalks.
She did warn us of strange men in vans, but never of the #willow tree by the pond, which had taken her sister and would eventually take one of us.
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fecund afternoons
idle hands yet busy minds
give birth to brilliance
#vss365#haiku#poetry
(image courtesy of Kathy Ponce on Flickr https://t.co/yya0PMGRWp)
"See my #sea_steed?"
He was handsome, dumb and blond. The dominant species here.
"I'm sorry?"
"The Sea Doo, it's the latest..."
The words kept coming but honestly I couldn't care enough to pay attention. But his shades did look amazing, glinting in the afternoon sun.
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"Aren't you supposed to be the #ring_giver?"
"The what?"
"You know, the one that gives the woman the ring."
"Proposes?"
"Proposes what?"
"That's what it's called, you dolt. Proposing."
"Like a deal?"
"Yep, that's the deal."
"English is a stupid language."
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