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purr-rat beauty

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8. It's driving me mad

Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:03 AM

Saturday

And the best way for me to process is writing, or I'll break things, or bones, or the law

No time to dispute
It is time to act
Things are burning fast
Lies are cooking us
That is a fact
Cinders have no spine
Ash cannot be skin
Sitting here lost
Doesn't help us
Speak against sin
So when?
How?
And why is this...
Even needed!
If only the warnings
Were heeded.

And now an addendum
For this poem
As my thoughts and fear
Across the paper
Continue to roam...

Do we sit here dumbfounded?
Self-immolate?
Eat lie after lie?
Or wait?
For when they decide
How we the people
Will die?

I just don't get it

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Oh yes! PatSeg Saturday #17

Acquiescent accomplices. BattleRow Saturday #22

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Correction on writer of the story... Pluvious Saturday #23

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