Trump’s latest (Speech?)

“Very big plant, uh, many countries they do that, and, uh, and then all of a sudden you hear that they’re leaving Milwaukee or wherever they may be, located, very sad to see it, and, it’s so simple, I mean, you know, this isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land within twelve inches on the moon where they wanted to land, or he gets the, engines back, that was the first I really, I said who the hell did that, I saw engines, about three four years ago, these things were coming, cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace, with the, circle, boom, reminded me of, the Biden circles that he used to have, right, he’d have eight circles, and he couldn’t fill them up, but then I heard he BS with the popular vote, I don’t know, I don’t know, couldn’t fill up the eight circles, I always loved those circles, they were so beautiful, they were so beautiful to look at, in fact the person that did that, that was the best thing his, the level of that circle, was, great, but they couldn’t get people, so they used to have the Press, stand in for the circles, because they couldn’t get the people, then I heard we lost, oh, we lost, now we’re never going to let that happen again, but we’ve been, abused, by other countries, we’ve been abused by our own politicians really more than other countries.”

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This is an excerpt from Facebook’s Stonekettle:

“That’s Trump, VERBATIM. That was Trump talking to the Detroit Economic Club, AFTER he repeatedly trashed Detroit as essentially a 3rd World country. This is not a person you want to hand over our economy to. This is not a guy you want deciding the makeup of the Supreme Court. This isn’t someone who should have the power to decide who can get married or what rights women should have or who pays taxes or what religion you’re forced to worship. This guy should be kept absolutely as far from the nuclear weapons as humanly, or even inhumanly, possible.”

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Friday Fictioneers

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“Wait!” she told her son. “The rain is going to stop and then you and I will go outside for a really big surprise!” Julie wanted her son to experience one of mother nature’s best features, a huge rainbow. He was only three years old and there very few rainbows in their area. He asked to go outside but she told him it was raining and they would go only when it stopped. He was impatiently waiting and she kept him away from the window, until the rainbow colors brightened. Outside, her son jumped up and down seeing the rainbow.

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Getting to Know You 38

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I am not mainly because I’ve been in the drivers seat.

Definitely the beach.

Scorching!

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I had to put this cartoon on because it reminded me of a nonstop trip from Houston to Denver. It was late into the trip and dark and I was looking out the front window and saw about five deer right in the middle of the road. I noticed he was not slowing down, so I said “deer”. He still wasn’t slowing down, so I repeated “deer” louder and then I finally just yelled “deer!” And he swerved and missed them.🙄. Okay I can hear the jokes about married people not listening to each other…comments?😂

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Get to Know You #38

Tanka Tuesday

Is this your first time at Tanka Tuesday? Here is what you do:

  • Write a syllabic poem on the theme of something that brought a big change in your life, using a syllabic form from the forms list HERE. If you write a freestyle poem, you must include a syllabic form with it. 
  • Post your poem on your personal site/blog.
  • Give us the instructions on how to write the syllabic form you used.
  • Include a link back to TankaTuesday.com in your post.

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Senryu – generally consist of 17 syllables divided over three lines in a 5-7-5 pattern, dealing with human nature, no capitals)

getting cancer twice

twenty years apart surprise

living on in health

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#Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, Specific Theme, 10/8/2024

dVerse Poets

Joe read the note
It wasn’t in the least remote
Fortifying his response
Cigarettes and whiskey long
Even then he felt no shame
Putting her writing to the flame
Detective work can make you queasy
Falling for the guilty isn’t easy
Tried his best to not get involved
When it was done, and the crime solved
He found himself in his favorite bar
Where playing the blues was the star.

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Poetics: Inspired by Album Cover Art