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Rated: E · Other · Writing · #2345865

Longish Limerick

World on the Rocks

Neon sings, a paper plane,
red ink scrawls across the vein.
Not a nervous nelly, spine of stone,
merciless winters carved my bone.

Purple prose, Jungian streams,
Super Mario reality dreams.
Potted orchid, orange spot,
blue-tick mind—approve or not.

Brazen, bold, unedited lines,
scatter-brain lilac dream designs.
Sand-castle vessel, shining bright,
Ke Sera Sera, we own the night.

Woke and open, pull up a chair,
“who gives a fuck?”—we breathe the air.
Loop it, twist it, bend it, spin,
dance, fight, break it, love again.

From Nantucket shores to Paris streets,
sweet-laced anarchy repeats.
Clout will wither, clout will die,
rainbows, unicorns for buy.

Famous today, tomorrow forgot,
ingenue roles dissolve to naught.
Sprint replaces marathon pace,
rags to riches—an endless chase.

Saturation, a leper’s mark,
fancy life demanded stark.
Bandwidth stretched, the gun misfired,
egos king-sized, self-admired.

Suffocating imposition rains,
a kitten lost in storm’s domain.
Crackling fire, s’mores of ash,
nature flips—caress or lash.

God in a breath, Goliath’s blow,
but David always rides the flow.
Fields of corn or droughts that choke,
sins judged by sinners—parody spoke.

Frogs in the pan, small radii turn,
High Priestess calls, the candles burn.
Schrödinger’s cat, Rorschach stains,
the Fool walks on through cups and chains.

Pentacles, wands, a tinsel box,
marionettes, and chessboard mocks.
Underdogs rise, yet bound by names—
why "under," why "dogs," in human games?

Apple tree blossoms, fractured, torn,
memory lanes where dreams are born.
Many faces—shiny, whiny,
life spins large, both cruel and tiny.

The world on the rocks,
a toast, a scream—
clinking glass
in a fractured dream.

@Rashi M
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