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Mackenzie Loomis- More than 10 people a year

  • Mackenzie Loomis- More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.

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  • The machine falls on them, because they aggressively shake it to get their snack to fall.

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  • They jump out the way, fall, laughing hard. "That*s, what happened to my life: I just wanted a bit of happiness and then the whole thing collapsed." He turns quiet

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  • every time the sky flashes purple. The colour overwhelms him with a feeling of exhaustion, and it is hard enough to keep his eyes open. He couldn't remember his name and leant on

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  • a nearby verbiage sprouting a few flowers of speech. Purple haze pummeled his occular orbs, and like squeezed grapes they exuded sweet utterances. Similitudes oozed up and

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  • in metaphoric oxymorons they twisted the meaning of the Haiku. Poetry on Folding Story Glittered in transcendent beauty leaving each line or verse more vividly imprinted on the mi

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  • nds of its reader. Shakespeare himself would have appreciarted the glittering monuments to the poetic art form he would see on FoildingStory. Iambic pentameter was a play thing in

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  • a buffoons wattle house. sumer indeed is a comen and so is wynter. alack for my lack of a quack in this black flack! But my bombs were away, where they went, I can't say. They migh

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  • -t have detonated somewhere over the lonely ocean and startled a fish, but that was hardly the effect I had anticipated. So I gave up bomb-making and took up flower arrangement.

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  • But, no. Then it was underwater basketweaving. Finally, paint-by-number. Ultimately, I rocked to & fro on my front porch,watching the world go by& wondering if I'd imagined it all.

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2 Comments

  1. Woab Oct 13 2018 @ 14:56

    Fascinating line by Slim, and the Prof's ending was winsome.

  2. SlimWhitman Oct 21 2018 @ 05:21

    Why thankyou! I don't remember exactly what prompted my line. I think I was stimulated by the imagery of lolarose's fold and just went with it.

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