SYW May 13, 2024

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Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Have you ever lied about your age? No

2.  Is there any time in your life you would like to relive? Yes, June 2013

3.  Do you own any antiques? A trunk and some small items in storage.

4.  Would you like to know some of the history of places you’ve visited? Odd question?

Gratitude: I am grateful to be home and discharged from Home Health. Now it’s outpatient PT I’m looking forward to…not☺️. Hospital bills are rolling in and this one made me laugh…and I am also billed for a ECG I never had🙄. This bill though small did make me laugh at the description of service – “high level of medical decision making”- I never even saw this doc!😵‍💫 I wonder what the low level is😳

Share Your World 13th May

dVerse Poets Redone

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Everyone needs a happy place
A certain one I wonder
What could this be, a dream—
With works of fiction in dusty beams
A quiet place with just one voice
An author narrating his latest book
As I sit listening in a garden nook.

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I got carried away with first response, so here is the correct 44 word version😵‍💫

Quadrille #201: Poems of Place

MLMM Wordle

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It was a celebration Sue looked forward to, a happy birthday party for her husband. She had planned it so there was plenty of room for all guests and their children with a play area close. The area also included a converted school bus where the kids of any age could have their face painted and do crafts. Sue was there to greet them all, most strangers to her were from her husband’s office. The day seemed to go flawlessly and when the tray with the birthday cake was brought out, candles aflame, everyone oohed and ahhed. Mark was all smiles as one of the office personnel raised a glass in a toast to him.

That’s when the trouble started. The woman giving the toast suddenly stripped off her clothes revealing a tiny string bikini and went over and planted a big kiss on Sue’s husband. Luckily most small children were inside the bus. Mark backed away and the woman’s friend grabbed the toasted toaster and left the party. Apparently the woman had a secret crush on Mark. The party was subdued after that incident and everyone left early. It is doubtful Sue or Mark rested easily that night.

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MLMM Wordle #372

The Sunday Whirl

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Restless waves slip in and out of the dark cave as marbled walls display flickering moonlit shadows. Joe’s pulse quickened as he fought the restraints repeatedly. The chance he might escape was minimal; he knew it. Why he decided to join the group now seemed a stupid and dangerous endeavor.

Joe started out as a fan of the music, a seemingly soul searching cry in the words. He should not have gone online to follow them as now they had his entire information at their hands. His first attendance at a concert of theirs seemed to fill a void in his mind, the song’s words meaningful. Joe was invited to an after party but started to get suspicious when he heard the demonic chanting…he was right.

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Wordle 654

MLMM Saturday Mix

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(Lawyer’s comment in court of law)

Standing up in court

Stands a fool

Got his lawyer

From the available pool

He was guilty, there was no doubt

But thought a lawyer would figure out

Ways to get a sympathetic connection

To the judge by always saying “jection!”

The judge surprised, at this lack of decorum

Felt sorry for the guilty party’s forum

“Your OBjection,” the judge declared

“Was inappropriate and your client is spared…

Such flagrant use of an important word

Your client should fire you for being absurd!“

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No Nonsense – Saturday Mix, 11 May 2024

NTT 2

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All seemed quiet and peaceful on this winter night, with warm lighted windows and snow covered streets in a sleepy town. This was exactly what Megador was looking for; a quiet place he could set up shop. By day and to the naive townsfolk, he was Mr. Jolly Jones, and deceivingly used that name’s personality while in public. Megador believed his setup as a candy store manager would be accepted in this community and he was right. He turned a false front into a thriving business. His employees were all from his former gang, and recently free from incarceration to commit new atrocities with Megador. The township loved Jolly’s new sweet concoctions, advertised as using local healthy ingredients and of course a secret recipe. The recipe was from Megador’s past where he used psychotropic additives to enhance natural sweet addiction that candies contain. The local contributors included milk, corn, sugar beet derivatives and other natural products. Once most of the population was “hooked” and his business grew in extreme, he would move on to another unsuspecting community.

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No Theme Thursday: 05/09/24

SoCS May 11, 2024

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Loan me your ears she might have said

Her graduation “speech” was a thing of dread

It was her private lone compilation

Words offered as a declaration

Of personal regards to her every family member

No connection to the ceremony whatsoever

And then came a reader of the grad’s names

She must have been on some slowed down game

Dragging the names out in long succession, so maudlin

Then watched slowly for every grad’s master stoles they were cloaked in

I’m only glad I’m not there in person

Couldn’t stand it- would be worsen🙄

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 11, 2024