Ahuki series part 2 - Renee Michele Walrafen

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as I eat this tasty egg
I think of chickens
hatching on breakfast bagels

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songs written about monkeys
band called The Monkeys
we are obsessed with monkeys

88
monster, litigation, wept,
defenestration:
these are my favorite words

211
if I were the grand master
namer of all things
I would call them Colourflies

235
evil ones are among us
Carebears, Puss-in-boots
Daffy, Woody, Sebastian

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contrary to my belief
the sun doesn't rise
I simply go upside down

270
vigilante jackrabbit
crimefighter saves the
planet from global warming

280
the ice rinks melted and the
zamboni driver
moved up north for the season

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one blister and five bruises
sore arms and shoulders
working in the garden sucks!

340
hooking up the internet
is like untieing
a knot of crazy cobras

342
if I was a panda bear
I'd wear a hoodie
dance in music videos

357
police do-not-cross ribbon
the lawn chair jumper
snags my evening plans again!

Ahuki series part 1 - Renee Michele Walrafen

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many thanks to you, my dark,
slick, thick, ebony,
musty, lusty sip of dusk

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sexy cherry tree, swaying
softly blooming, ripe,
lush, sighing in the front yard

55
oak tree gnarled like an old dog
complaining of aches
heavy in the winter wind

80
you hanging above my door
head squeezed through the crack
limp like a watch on canvas

90
I want to be a stripper
red nails on the pole
ass in someone's candy face

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wind encircles like tendrils
tracing my light skin
in a clockwise direction

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subsistence surplus tariff
inhalation fee
excess mastication charge

217
I am the raging ocean
nuzzling the shoreline
teeming with everything

231
a parade of masked ravens
with propaganda
of raven democracy

243
there is a gateway to
all permutations
of the life you are living

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caught in my internal tale
swarming bumblebees
gnaw at my blueberry brain

276
bunch of winged candy buds
in a pack, basking
too stiff to follow the sun

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like a teenaged runaway
the passing moments
long to find their way back home

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when I'm old I want to ride
a spaceship into
atoms of the after-life

The Dog Walk - Anna

I was taking my two dogs for a walk and two neighbours and their two dogs happened to be walking the same direction as me. We all went through an underpass of a disused railway station. The dogs had all gone on ahead.

But then a train came. We were worried the dogs might have got on the tracks so we quickly ran up to the platform to look for the dogs and call them to us. We couldn't find them. We thought they might have got on the train. We walked up and down the carriages looking for them.

I had separated from the neighbours and went downstairs to the first class carriages. There were really nice seats and dining areas. I must have looked like riff raff to everyone there as I walked quickly along the passage way looking for the dogs. There was absolutely no sign of them.

There was another level below the first class carriage. This was second class. I found the neighbours here. They said the dogs had been caught and put in a container. It was a long train journey into the neighbouring country and the dogs had to be kept in the cargo area. We hadn't registered our dogs in our home town, and since the next stop was in the next country, the dogs would become citizens of that country. They wouldn't be allowed back home without undergoing an extensive quarantine period. I was so upset and angry.

I saw the wooden crate that the dogs had been put in. There would be several days until the next stop. I wanted to open the crate to feed them and give them water but I wasn't allowed. In the end they suffered complications and died.

How Much Do You Like Cooking? - Anna

I got on the bus and sat behind a girl with long black hair. She turned around and asked myself and the other passengers near me how much we like cooking, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 meaning we loved cooking.

Someone next to me said "-1."

I timidly said, "I like it."

And a guy behind me said "-20."

I felt like the odd one out.

Then the girl with long black hair said, "If anyone likes yoghurt, I can make some nice yoghurt out of blackberry cake."

That sounded strange to me.

First Day of Spring - Anna

Today is the first day of Spring. I have ventured outside for the first time in a long time, in three months.

The sky is blue for the first time. The grass is green. There is a hint of warmth in the air.

I can see! I can smell! I had forgotten how nice it was to be outside!

I should do this more often, go outside. Relax, breathe, live.