Mnemonic Devices of the Soul by Same-side, literature
Literature
Mnemonic Devices of the Soul
(Lights up on a spartan kitchen. MAN and WOMAN stand on opposite sides of a counter island. MAN is facing WOMAN, but WOMAN is facing away from MAN.) MAN Is today the only time you've done this? Can you tell me at least that much--do you have at least that much decency? (pause) Do you not remember how many times? Is that why you hesitate to answer? (pause) I'm not asking for a catalog or a minute-by-minute rundown, but I need more information. Why is it so hard? Is it shame? Is it fear? I promise: I won't hurt you. (pause) Listen, lots of people have been in our galoshes before. It doesn't mean we throw them in the dustbin and go shoe-shopping the next day. There are cobblers and therapists that can help us get our soles back in place. Or our souls back in place. (pause) Souls? Soles? Are our souls located above or below our soles? I can never remember the mnemonic device my anatomy professor taught us for the orientational relationship between the sole and the soul. (pause)
Puzzle
“Ryan, come on! You’ve been working on that thing for the past three days! Don’t you think you should take a break?” a glasses wearing man called from the lower level of the apartment, fixing his pony tail.
“This is the last thing my Dad got for me before he disappeared. It would be awful of me not to fix this puzzle,” Ryan responded, sitting in front of a desk with a few pieces of gold colored metal of different sizes and shapes, with an almost complete egg shaped structure right next to the few pieces left.
“Dude, it’s just one of those cheap puzzles that someone gets at a dollar
Wrapped tightly at nightly,
to safeguard 'gainst blightly,
dig six feet down rightly.
Look down from the heightly,
The moon shines so brightly
While zombies are bitely
on humans who fightly.
As the wind *whistles* through the bristles of my mighty mustache,
I admit a sense of excitement caused my veins to pump BUMP.
I expertly inhaled a hefty sniff of sweet oxygen
and leapt into the buzzzzz of the crisp atmosphere before me.
The steely tension caused a crack and a pop! inside of my chest
as my godly pectorals braced for the cold slap! of the wind.
As, shirtless, I *whooped* into my secret and cavernous hole,
isolated from the rest of the busy world, I guffawed!
Wonderful elation elicited ecstatic yee-haws!
I felt an uncontrollable thumping through my arteries,
I pulled my rip cord and released my parachute...and then snap!
As
I took a deep breath and stepped to the left,
dodging the right hook, I jabbed at the cleft
on the man that is standing in front of me
and my speed is far too abrupt to see.
Your rigid legs wobble around the knee,
you fumble about like a bumble bee,
pepper you with punches incessantly
with concussive force to the Nth degree.
I watched my opponent, while bellicose,
as he took a straight hook across his nose,
as strange as it was I smiled at the thought
of defeat in front of the fans he brought.
This made for TV contest of twelve rounds
is bound to end with our blood on the grounds.
Then, without warning the look on his face
took a d
Halloween
“Do you see that!?” a ghost in a sailor outfit with sandy blonde hair sitting on the front gate of a cemetery, pointing to a couple of kids dressed as ghosts with sheets. Another ghost, who was reading outside the gate, looked up with his eyes downcast accompanying his disinterested look.
“Yeah, kids dressed as ghosts, so what?” the reading ghost replied, looking up from his book. The ghost sitting on the fence floated down to the other ghost, and pulled him up.
“Arnold, look at those kids; making fun of our kind and using those stupid bed sheets to represent the amazing look of us ghosts. Whateve
Ladder Match
“Uhhh…Brian, is there anything I can say that’ll make you see that this is a REALLY bad idea?” a blonde haired man wearing a hoodie yelled at his friend, who was climbing up a giant ladder.
“No there isn’t, Jack. CZW is coming to New Jersey next week, and I want to make sure that they see what I can do!” Brian said, looking down at the table he placed at the bottom of the house.
“You’re going to kill yourself, and won’t live to see CZW,” Jack countered. Brian rolled his eyes and scoffed while preparing to dive.
“You’re just being a buzz kill. If
Rhyming is hard, I'm not even joking,
I perseverate lines until my mind is....um..
the pain in my brain...
my thoughts down the drain drown in..crap!
Lemme start again.
To build a rhyme
you put in time
feels like a lifetime...wait.
Did I just rhyme time with...time?!
Start with a word that sounds absurd,
one that is heard by the rest of the...Herd? World?! NERDS?!
What am I even saying anymore!?
Jesus Christ! Writing is hard!
If you're trying to write a rhyme,
but frustrated all of the time,
try this neat trick!
Use a...try this-Y'know what! SCREW IT.
When you're writing a new thing every day, sometimes you write bad poetry.