It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
~ R.E.M. ~
gathering here at the end
(some would call it a ledge)
our time on stage is brief
(as it always has been)
(as it always will be)
in the land of the not-so free
all dressed up with no place to go
the future is a shapeshifter
who likes to spike the punch
so get lost in the spectacular
you’re going to have a blast.
The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Challenge #60
| Brief | End | Shape | Land | Blast |
Let me guess… This is code for our political mess…
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could be…could be…but if one thinks of our political world as theater, as, thus, a reflection of us beyond politics, then it just might be code for something else… 🙂
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Leonard Bernstein?
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Or Stephen Sondheim.
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he might live next door to the Lemmings…
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I also thought it was insight of the election.
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Stunning words…the true meaning? There could be many, depends from where you are looking, I suppose.
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emerging layers of subtext with each readers individual experiences…or so they say 😉
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The lemmings–though not named as such–were in my Secret Keeper offering, too.
I like the theater metaphor.
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Timely – love the title – so true. We’re definitely being forced to drink some wicked punch.
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the punch does have quite a kick to it.
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Wonderful image – the future as shapeshifter.
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thanks…it is intriguing how quickly one’s view of the future can so quickly get turned on its head…one moment ‘this’, the next moment ‘that.’
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The Lord of Misrule let loose? And who’s going to enjoy the shenanigans?
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don’t know if “enjoy” is part of the vocabulary
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