Prose poems 100

A thread for bits of prose about 100 words long, give or take a couple words. No need to have a plot or wrap things up by the end. Maybe just a flash of fictional flavor from present times, or days to come or days past.

Sanjiro Martinez and I were lounging in Charbucks when King Alfred II announced his plans for garden estate pyramids in the less fortunate areas of Great Britain and its former colonies.

But I could tell Sanjay had become afflicted by a stream of adverts. Usually he could make a little “please wait” gesture, but he was possessed and distant. We both suffered when this happened.

I had offered several times to help him pay for a sub to JackedPro or some other adblocker, but he kept telling me he would find his own way.

Eventually he said, “King Alfred’s cool.”

How original.

@divegeester said
How original.

Oh come on. Please try to pad that out. Only 98 words to go. We all know you have verbal and/or linguistic skills. Have some bullet coffee if you feel your energy flagging.

@divegeester said
How original.

Just hire him to be your PR man.

God knows you need one.

@suzianne said
Just hire him to be your PR man.

God knows you need one.

If you step on the mat, you have to play, although I imagine you might already be formulating something. Doesn't have to be perfect. A little wabi-sabi, a little I-Ching of the moment or some other moment would be fine. Loose but could also be refined strokes, for the moment, not posterity. 🙂

P.S. -- my post was not intended to set a theme -- let's invite a variety of themes.

@suzianne said
Just hire him to be your PR man.

God knows you need one.

I have a feeling that similar to me, but in a different way, Dive is just sometimes misunderstood.

@suzianne said
Just hire him to be your PR man.

God knows you need one.

PR is for the prideful and emotionally brittle who lack stoicism and sufficient thickness of skin in order to stand tall in principled fortitude.

@divegeester said
PR is for the prideful and emotionally brittle who lack stoicism and sufficient thickness of skin in order to stand tall in principled fortitude.

The stone and the turtle are wetted by the same stream.

Leave the axis of brittleness in the past. It's okay.

@divegeester

My thoughts exactly 🤔

@kevin-eleven said
The stone and the turtle are wetted by the same stream.

Leave the axis of brittleness in the past. It's okay.

You show great promise Grasshopper.

once upon a time,
i altered energy itself
i now have zero mass and my energy levels are exponentially off the charts
(which i have also altered)
when i achieve light speed in my regular human form i will return from the future and explain in more detail

@divegeester said
PR is for the prideful and emotionally brittle who lack stoicism and sufficient thickness of skin in order to stand tall in principled fortitude.

Thus my post.

@suzianne said
Thus my post.

Well ... I don’t feel the need to embellish my life profile with stories about being visited by celestial beings, while spending my time saving “countless” lives on the streets using CPR, while playing professional level live music in jazz bars, while crashing sexual molesters through “countless” bar tables using martial arts, while being abducted and held captive for two years....

So much for “PR”.

@divegeester said
Well ... I don’t feel the need to embellish my life profile with stories about being visited by celestial beings, while spending my time saving “countless” lives on the streets using CPR, while playing professional level live music in jazz bars, while crashing sexual molesters through “countless” bar tables using martial arts, while being abducted and held captive for two years....

So much for “PR”.

So your life is boring AF and so you try to assuage your hurt narcissistic feelings and try to present yourself as a paragon of "principled fortitude" but no one buys it and so you lash out at people who are more interesting than you. You've spent your whole RHP career doing this.

Yes, you obviously need a PR man.