If a picture paints a thousand words
I could post one now and be done.
But I promised I wouldn’t.
Though it’s still on my camera roll.
I do confess to sending it
to one of my muses
That’s all, I swear.
Why would I lie?
Her response:
“Holy Toledo!!!!”
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a quatrain
of exclamatory punctuation
My high school English teacher
once said
those who use
an excess of Exclamation Points
generally have little to say.
But
That’s
How
Bad
It
Was.
and SHE only saw the picture.
All senses are required
to fully
appreciate
the putrefaction
Picture if you dare
A chest freezer
An electrical outlet
Umbilical cord connecting the two
Sever the lifeline.
Add two months
three?
Apparently,
keeping it closed
doesn’t help.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you are like whitewashed tombs,
which on the outside look beautiful,
but inside they are full of the bones of the dead
and of all kinds of filth.
Jesus knew what he was talking about.
defying atrophy 