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TheBess commented on the post, anchor 1 month, 1 week ago
Freely throw me overboard – even with zest, with oomph, with a determination boarding on aggression. Then go about your business as though your vessel were secure.
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TheBess commented on the post, cities 2 months ago
Teeming, sluggish, filled with the stenching, heady breath of life, with nowhere to go but up.
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TheBess wrote about the word palette 1 year, 5 months ago
Dipping in joy
Dabbling in melancholy
Blending isolation, appreciation
Smearing searing pain
With smudged but vibrant love
Clashing perspectives with
Wide, unbending strokes
Of anger, remorse, forgiveness
Touching up with grace -
TheBess wrote about the word edge 1 year, 7 months ago
You offer only pretense, show, served up on a forgettable platter by unremarkably gloved hands and weak arms, and you call it ‘edgy’.
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TheBess wrote about the word sponge 1 year, 8 months ago
Lap it up. Suck. Gather. Take and take and take. Do not give. Do not offer. Do not budge. One day, you will be full and you will overflow. But today is not that day. Today, and for days to come, you are a sponge, a thundering river in the making.
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TheBess wrote about the word canvas 1 year, 9 months ago
Draw me a bird, a lamp, and a thunderbolt, if you can manage it. Give me flight, and light, and an unmistakeable voice.
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TheBess wrote about the word strength 2 years, 1 month ago
A rigid plank told by the world to break, unbending, on which the world, in time, shuffles in a single file line across the deadly ravine that cuts deep between its present and its future.
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TheBess wrote about the word whole 2 years, 2 months ago
My requirement is a division to provide for a future that is whole. Your requirement is a wholeness that is sure to bring division. God help me. God help you. Meantime, my heart is sore.
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TheBess wrote about the word wander 2 years, 2 months ago
Your heart is as fixed as is a bird to a gas lamp, and your eyes are no steadier.
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TheBess commented on the blog post ragged 2 years, 4 months ago
His polished shoe and greeting did nothing for her. After the evening she had just passed, with her dreams cracked open and bleeding like a hemophiliac’s last ditch effort at normalcy, she would have liked to see him looking just a little ragged.
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TheBess wrote about the word: bunny 2 years, 5 months ago
No, no, you have it all wrong. It’s December. You should be asking me about lights and trees and fat men and greed and generosity and parking space disputes and crowds and family time and the Sun God as opposed to Jesus and endless jolly-annoying jingles and cookies and snow and kisses inspired by poisonous [...]
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TheBess commented on the blog post ivy 2 years, 6 months ago
He clung to her with all the desperation of a life and love in crisis while she chatted in unsympathetic whispers with her cold, cold lady friends.
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TheBess wrote about the word elixir 2 years, 6 months ago
“Take your time, drink it deeply, because you will never go back and your world will never be the same.” Forgetting herself, she threw it back in hopes of forgetting them.
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TheBess wrote about the word whiskers 2 years, 7 months ago
Her face was raw all throughout the morning, tinglingly numb by the most romantic anesthetic available, and the deadness of her lippy nerves bespoke her waking soul.
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TheBess wrote about the word octopus 2 years, 7 months ago
8 rubies for my baby sweet
8 sandstones for a lady’s treat
8 sprinkled churros warm and soft
8 decks of cards held aloft
8 honeybees heading west
8 tablespoons of lemon zest
8 bites she took of buttered toast
8 times he said he loved her most -
TheBess wrote about the word seat 2 years, 7 months ago
Lights down. Audience hushes. Curtains up on a surly ruffian and his desperate maiden, unaware of her own purity and the liberty waiting just offstage for its queue.
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TheBess wrote about the word telescope 2 years, 7 months ago
“Telescope!” she screamed, with her back against the wall like a pinned wrestler. “It’s behind the telescope!” But he was distracted by the heavens and couldn’t spare the time to rescue her from the midnight intruders.
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TheBess wrote about the word flannel 2 years, 7 months ago
True confidence is when you stand at the checkout counter, greasy hair, sandals over mid-calf socks, cut-off shorts and an ill-fitting, wrinkled flannel, thinking you’re cool. In addition to “confident” we also call this “ridiculous”.
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TheBess wrote about the word chatter 2 years, 7 months ago
Your chatter is endlessly offering nothing. Shoosh. Hear that? It’s wisdom whispering, and you’re missing it.
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TheBess wrote about the word waiter 2 years, 7 months ago
I am shuffling my feet after years of standing very, very still. I’m sorry, my composure is slipping and my eagerness begins to show. How much longer? How much longer?
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