One Word
 

one word

go there. write. post your results. new word each day.

Infect
 

it peirced my skin and filled me through every open pore. i drew in the toxin, thirsty for pain and my head spun as it tried to gasp for one final breath.

and it was dark. and it was calm. and i only heard the echo of memory fading in the distance.

The rhythm gets into you and soon you find your body moving, moving, moving to the beat.
It stays with you loooong into the next day.

oozing yellow green, antibiotics may help, don't pick it, don't touch it. Get a bandaid. Let it heal. It will get better if you leave it alone. pustule of hell.

Divide and conquer. A J-shaped curve. The means of the masses. Inky smells in musty hells. The depths of dispair, or perhaps a nagging urge for togetherness. You and me

REACHING

Pulling up, handhold after handhold. Clawing, finding cracks, fingerholds, anything to keep going up and up until you can go no further. Top o' the world!

Reaching
 

my arms are tired and i'm beginning to waver and wobble high up on my tippy-toes. if only it were closer. if only i were taller. if only i had a few more years to grow before it passed before me. i want it for me, to teach me who i am.

[reaching]

[aphrodite]
far up. My hand, my arm, I stretch, I reach, my fingertips touch it but only enough to graze, I cannot grasp, I cannot hold, just touch, just feel

UNION

Blue uniforms line up in a long row. March forward to certain death. Who can imagine dedication and duty like that in this day and age? Facing their own mortality, they marched into battle anyway. Heroes, one and all.

union
 

two become one. As bose-einstein condensate or perhaps fermionic condensate- the spooky group action. Somehow the particles become the same thing.

Holy matrimony, they latest controversy

union

my best fried is getting married. I ought to be happy. Is wrong for me to be sad? I know they're going to have a great life. He's a wonderful guy. A truly wonderful guy, sweet and caring and open. I love my best friend. The problem is, I think I love her fiance, too.

[union]

[aphrodite]
individuals joining to be strong. Unite against another force. Merge as one to bevcome somehow bigger. The union of man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, people and people

Quarter
 

so what's it gonna be? heads and my life as i know it is over, i turn off the lights, shut the door and head for places unknown.

tails and i am continuing with the ever-familiar. i get comfy and wait.

or i could just toss the quarter in a field and think for myself.

[quarter]

[aphrodite]
half of a half. piece of a portion. one of four. seems to be alot somehow. yet is only a little.

for a quarter of a quarter is but a sixteenth and that is just one year when you are only sixteen and just starting out in the world, a world that they say gives no quarter so I would kindly suggest you take your own quarters