Didn't want to leave too long a break between my 'hello' and the first 'real' post, but didn't have anything for here until this morning. And by 'this morning' I mean my frantic attempt to get something written for class today.
What follows is my haphazard attempt to fulfill the Instruction prompt for the assignment:
Staples and String
Do you feel that?
The tearing of your skin
the breaking of your mind
the rending of your heart?
Move quick, we must head off disaster.
Find the staples and plunge them deep
to places unseen,
binding together things once severed,
keeping ugly harmony.
Feel the parts tug and pull against
metal shackles within.
We've now kept the heart together.
A mind broken with thoughts untethered
could surely derail our plan,
so gather up the string in all its lengths
and tie thought end to end.
Feel them flop and flail as you return them to jail
and sew your mind closed.
You've now subdued the mind.
The creep of the skin shall cease at once
with string cinching at seams.
Weave the thread from edge to edge
to stitch a colorful web.
Tie them off with a bow or two to make
them seem brand new.
Our surgery is now complete.
Take in the sight of you now refined
prettied up with string and bow
hiding the writhing deep below
quietly biding its time.
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