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A Sonnet to Shel Silverstein

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 Off-kilter Poems by Jay Horne All Illustrations by Jay Horne and Copyright 2021 by Bookflurry Inc. Chillin’ Like a Heroine I’d rather not chill like a villain… Villains never chill, they’re always so busy trying to chill, they never chill… Then they die tryin’ to chill… They’ll probably die saying, “I was just trying to chill…” Then they will be chilly… That’s creepy . And to be clear, that is Heroine not Heroin. Also will make you too chill and then chilly… blue in fact… and your family blue, too… Okay, I’ve gone too far. Point is… Let’s chill, but only cuz we’ve worked hard for it, and haven't hurt anyone. SIN cere Sin cere Sin here Sin there Sinclair… Do I sin, if I in my mind, literally pluck a duck? In this world we’ve all sinned enough Where sin has, in fact, run amok. Sin is a crime Crime is a sin Even when sin is for love. Inter specially mating’s a sin… Tell that to a sweet turtle dove. You should use your creativity for something more productive. I tried t...

Write with Rapture

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Less than One Percent of all Goodness is the Physicality. Copyright 2021 Bookflurry Inc. Pen Image edited from  Pixabay Back in my twenties I watched a B-rated movie called Mind Walk . It was right around the time that The Secret came out, and What the Bleep-Down the Rabbit Hole , and such things… I really enjoyed that movie twice, and I don’t watch movies twice. Well, except Frozen, but that was forced, over, over, and over again. Another one I watched twice was Pontypool . They both had this meditative zeal. The kinda feel like, if you were alone and had real time to just relax, but not waste, then that was it. They were the kind of movies that you could just listen to without the film even. But the film made it better. I’ve never looked to see if those were based on books because, if they were, they had to have been mostly dialogue. But man, they kept you attentive. A philosopher, a politic, and a scientist walk around discussing the exact thing they are on vacation retreating...