For Cee’s FOTD
For the Lens Artists Challenge #274: Asymmetry
Meat Market Surprise
Her low-cut dress clearly bespoke
her dire need to meet a bloke.
When she removed her swathing cloak,
a dozen men at once awoke
from barroom reveries to choke
on swallows of their Rum and Coke
or beer or whisky. “Okeedoke!”
their eyes said, as they shared the joke.
Which one would have the night’s best poke?
One chugged his drink, as if to stoke
his courage. One more took a toke.
They circled round, craving the yoke
of one night’s spree–perhaps a soak
in penthouse hot tub most Baroque?
Then, as though wishes could invoke
more luck, a mini-skirt and toque-
clad example of fine womanfolk
appeared , more passions to provoke—
another goddess made to evoke
a duel, heart attack or stroke!
But then, alas, their bubbles broke
as she sauntered up and pulled an oak
stool to the bar and spoke.
Her voice was sultry—fire and smoke—
as she killed their dreams in one fell stroke.
“Darling,” she said to the other miss,
enfolding her in an ardent kiss.
For #SOCS: Meat (This is a reblog of a 2019 poem, but since all of my writing is stream of consciousness, I figure it meets the prompt.)
Here are the questions for Fibbing Friday, along with my answers:
1. Whose home planet is Skaro? Practitioners of the predecessors of reggae. This planet better known as Earth, their region as Jamaica.
2. What would you expect to find in Dinotopia? Really good fifties type food. Hamburgers and fries, hot beef sandwiches, strawberry malts.
3. Who was born on Krypton? Spawn of the living dead. In addition to being zombies, his folks were really bad spellers.
4. Where can you find Plutonium ? In comic books and cartoons along with Bugs and Porky.
5. What colour blood would a Martian have? This is a trick question. Martians (little green men) do not have blood but rather liquid chlorophyl coursing through their veins, thus their color.
6. Who’s home planet is Gallifrey? “In Gallifrey did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree!”
7. Who’s home world is Eternia? Home planet of the Kardashians…nature’s guarantee that we will never be rid of them.
8. What was the Hyborian Age? The present age of the hibernation of dinosaurs. In a few hundred years it will be over and they will re-emerge to take over the planet.
9. Where would you find Pellucidar? Let me be perfectly clear that such a planet is illusory and fictional.
10. What is Thedas? Anything that Theda wants!!!
For Fibbing Friday Image by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash
First of all, here is my completed sugar skull I hadn’t finished yesterday:
And here is my story! Today I went to the Panteón (graveyard) for the third time to add dead bread and new candles to my adopted graves and also to check on the paper garlands I decked it with three days ago. Well, they were completely torn apart and resided in clumps all over and around the graves. It had rained and the candle glasses were testament to this as well as they were full of water. I cleaned up the mess, added new candles and dead bread and afterwards, went to see a retablos show at the Garden of Dreams. I had no sooner entered when my phone rang and when I answered it, although there was no call registered, dozens and dozens of photos of my dear friend Gloria, who died a year ago and who is on my DOD altar, started to stream on my phone! There were photos from years and years ago, photos I had forgotten about and hadn’t seen in years. I have no idea how this happened as I’d pressed nothing and as I said before, no phone call registered. I guess she is just letting me know she’s thinking of me as I’m thinking of her. R.I.P. Gloria.
Must go tomorrow to put liquid refreshment on the graves and perhaps more decorations if it rains tonight–this time in plastic. As you may know by now, D.O.D. is pretty much the biggest holiday in Mexico. A joyous celebration of remembering.
Click on photos to enlarge.
The art show where I’m showing my paintings for the first time in my life is also opening tomorrow. I’m a bit nervous about it. I’ll let you know how it goes and perhaps show you the paintings, perhaps not.
For Cee’s FOTD
Click on photos to enlarge.
In Mexico, it is traditional to decorate sugar skulls for Day of the Dead. These skulls are a bit kookier than usual!
For bushboy’s Last on the Card prompt.
After a lifetime (Well, so far) of gestation, I’ve finally given birth to The China Bulldog, and it’s out of the nursery and ready for y’all to buy bunches of copies to slip into hotel rooms snuggled up to the Gideon, to slip onto coffee tables of the homeowners you’re visiting when they leave to refill your coffee, to prop up that too-short table leg where it lost its endcap….. Ok, you get the idea.
(This post was made by Forgottenman, as you may have guessed from the blurb above! Thanks, Forgottenman, as usual, for pushing me to accomplish my tasks). Actually, I do hope you buy it, give a review on Amazon, but especially let me know what you think.
Click the Amazon link HERE!
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