The Bag Lady

Grazing on his chicken gizzards, the gruff gibbon started to gag. Often given to guffaw watching my dear brother gulping his gastric galaxy, I managed to stifle till only a giggle remained.

Gastronomic gourmands have nothing on my brother. Gathering garlic and herbs to wrap in gauze for his ghoulish broths, he is now the gourmet of the “Goons and Goblins Gourmet” television show. The network realized there are many viewers looking for the bizarre that only my my brother achieves, so the gnathonic producers signed him for a month’s contract in October episodes.

I suppose some day, future generations will look upon graphic glyphs on old cement parking structures, showing my brother at his cauldron.

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I try to watch “The Food Kitchen” on Saturdays. I like the chefs, fun attitude and these are a few recipes that are “very simple, very easy” from their Spooky Surprises and Harvest of Horrors episodes. Check out the Eyeball cheesecake and the cutup veggie Skeleton. An easy one that kids would like is Green Slime Popcorn. Kids can pull pieces off and it makes long sticky strands. You can find more recipes on the Food Network.

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BARF BARK

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1. I would not want to run into a rabid animal.

2. The creepiest thing that happened to me – having a man cut me off, pull in front of me and get out of his car and walking to my car window.

3. Are you kidding? I have no idea. For a laugh I think “okay, who’s with me?”

4. I think legends come from somewhere, so who is to know, really?

5. I don’t go to horror movies.

6. Clowns are horrid things, and yes, creepy.

7. A flamethrower.

8. Yes, I think they are interesting. We used to do it as children, and the ouija board.

9. Maybe because they look great at night.

10. I think most anything that can take your mind off daily problems that go on is a good thing.

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Halloween night

It had been a rough day

Dressed in some rags

To scare ghouls away

Didn’t seem to work

Thought I was hip

But opening the gate

Saw kids curling their lips

Didn’t mean such a fright

On trick or treat night

Listening to them starting to w(h)ine

Donned a better costume

Then they were fine.

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Weekly Writing Challenge #165

Dressing this morning

In the dark

Without glasses

Weather so cold

I felt like molasses

Thought I may go out for the day

Got up early to be on my way

Weather is chilly, calls for a sweater

Blue with these pants

Couldn’t look better

After all the hair and makeup done

Went again to a mirror to see what I’d done

I noticed the sweater looked good as new

Wow, this detergent really kept it blue!

Looked closer, realized it was inside out

I’m at the brink of the link without a doubt.

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October Writing Prompts

When I first heard this song it gave me a chill. I could just picture who I thought had a powerful voice, and boy was I wrong.

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Unsolved hunger to

Achieve peace and compassion

Strikes heart with sorrow

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PITTSBURGH — At the end of a weekend that redefined concepts of anti-Semitism in the United States, a grieving Rabbi Jeffrey Myers directly linked Saturday’s massacre at his Tree of Life synagogue to the rhetoric of U.S. politicians.

“It starts with speech,” Myers said to loud applause at a Sunday-evening vigil attended by two U.S. senators. “It has to start with you as our leaders. My words are not intended as political fodder. I address all equally. Stop the words of hate.”

Two hours after the rabbi’s speech, President Trump absolved himself of responsibility and once again blamed others for the nation’s troubles.

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RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #225 Strike&Hunger

This Prompt especially appropriate for me, so I’m taking my own advice:

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I may have done this one before. The people who made this movie have great insight to real people. “Little Miss Sunshine”. I can also relate to Olive being left. I was left at a gas station as a child. Luckily, the owner was a friendly man who tried to reassure me they would return, and they did. My cousin kept telling them they left me, but the four adults kept ignoring her.😳😄

The Hoover family — a man (Greg Kinnear), his wife (Toni Collette), an uncle (Steve Carell), a brother (Paul Dano) and a grandfather (Alan Arkin) — puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into a VW bus and heading to California to support a daughter (Abigail Breslin) in her bid to win the Little Miss Sunshine Contest. The sanity of everyone involved is stretched to the limit as the group’s quirks cause epic problems as they travel along their interstate route.

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Remember the old days when using a bell

Was the only way for someone to tell

When it was time to come in for supper

Or fall out of bed if you’re in the upper …(sorry…but it rhymes…)

Bunk and needed to get up quick

Cause the alarm on the clock decided to stick?

Those were the days when you woke up cranky

From an old bell so clunky and clanky.

The blasted thing never stopped, if it worked

So you were tempted to give it a jerk

Off the shelf and across the room

Hoping to quiet the impending doom

Of rising again to face the fray

Getting up and out, and start your day.

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(Lucky for you, the ten minutes is up!)

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October Writing Prompts