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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/919505-Her-Lists-BW-Final-Cut-39
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2088946
A folder for my writing August 2017 & July 2016
#919505 added August 31, 2017 at 2:04pm
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Her Lists (B&W Final Cut #39)
82 words, 22 lines
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among her lists of lists
and stone-age dreams,
she shaped weapons
from rocks
of Neolithic times
to throw at him

chert, jasper, agate,
and chalcedony
though they could be
exchanged with
diamond, emerald, or ruby

yet, in their midst
she could accept
aquamarine, opal, or pearl
sapphire, topaz, or spinel

But these lists were misses
no kisses they brought
so she came up with
a better list with a twist.
mortal and murderous,
while she sang
“Fifty ways to leave your lover”

Prompt 39. She had lists upon lists and in the midst she had...
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