post attack

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	Fear
	Beer
	Mere 
	Here


Now 
		she is not frightened of
	beer 
		that smell he spat …
	Mere
		defense of her self then and she
		says: I am more of a wine person
	Here


		They 
		are what she stands for
Now
		helping others
	Mere
		goodwill toward Earth
		A peaceful life
	Here


	We 
	walk around the lake and
	she
	speaks of life’s liberty and 
Now
	we've furnished the room in the attic and
	for years, we stay right 
Here

Troubled trickster

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then I thought I stand to steer
on the backseat watching out for her
playing thimblerig with my marbles
whirling wayward off my cozy cushion 

lying in her desolate sedan 
on roads running close sinking in
potholes bumping in bends bare
trees too swiftly swished away 

troubling tricks jolt my ejection
seat unseeded in the race restless
moves on no avail ability now
the motor stalls still in the dead-end

The prompt in my writing workshop was, you guessed it, trickster.

The organizer of the writing workshops here in San Diego has contributed two poems to this blog: Ashen grey and The flower of thought.