I’m doing that thing again…
You know the one… The thing where I’ve started 20 different drafts over the course of the past hour…
I’ll get an idea, start strongly, but inevitably I finish flat.
Picture if it were pen and paper - an overflowing wastebasket full of scratches and scribbles.
It is as if the start of each incomplete story is a false awakening from a half-baked dream with no conclusion.
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DEMI
1/4/2026 When I wrote this I was searching for a title and I happened across this song by Demi Lovato and it spoke to how I feel when I write. It feels like I'm screaming into the void and none hear me. My words are taking forever to land but I am hoping light years from now, I will be famous (LOL). And people will look back and wonder what the author was thinking. Unintentionally, when I recite this verbally or in my head, if read as rap-it works best after the 7th line and after "persecutions" the last 8 lines read in contemplation-or read any way you like. I'm just the writer.
By Victor Mendez6 days ago in Poets
Bomb Scare
It was 2027, and the world never thought it would happen. A missle hit the United States, but it wasn't where they had anticipated. A little town in the northeast was hit by a missile strike, they didn't know why, and they didn't know exactly where it hit, but they did know it was a coastal community, somewhere between Maine and Delaware.
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A half-baked dream with no conclusion! 😮🤩 Loved that line! And had plenty of those moments.