How you doodling?
I wasn’t really sure where I was going to take these words, so I just wrote two of them into the first line
from textfixer.com
and went from there. I think the speaker is probably a teenager? I got snapshots of dyed purple hair and chipped black nail varnish.
I got up stupidly late today, having been writing and thinking a bit too much, and I’ve hit the Irn Bru Xtra hard recently. So maybe my brain equates being this quinine-soaked with university 😉
**Mum, this one will creep you out, sorry…!**
Bet Lizard Existing Night Habit Proposal Sector Historic Hug
As a bet, I held the lizard
After it was dead.
(My disgust existing
Somewhere in my bowel)
That night, the conjured ghost of it
Scurried around my head;
Its long tongue probing
At my buzzing thoughts.
I have this ingrained habit,
This affliction of sorts,
Where others’ approval
Means “nod at proposal”;
“Play the missing sector
Of an arbitrary circle”:
A historic ploy to
Extract a cool hug.
Scribbles and scrawl
I did look up ‘sector’ (as at first I was just stuck on the job category meaning of it); but most of my 15 minute window was taken up by writing and mild tweaking. Again I noticed that the syllables matched pretty well, but I was able to make it all a bit more even in the time I had remaining. So I like how I’ve left it, my speaker being all self-reflecty and thought-ridden.
What ‘bet’ would you have written about? Would ‘Lizard’ have been a nickname of someone? What would be ‘existing’ at ‘night’ out of pure ‘habit’ that would later need a ‘hug’?!
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