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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Whirligig # 390

WORDLE

 

 can't eat dinner

nor drink that delicious juice 

can't sit still 

toss and turned all night

to the rattling window

retraced all the steps

leading to this situation

which started out as a sublime experience

hoping and waiting for a miracle

then finally forced to accept the reality

when the little voice within said

come now

you can only have him as a friend





 

 friend night come wait sublime retrace toss night sit eat dinner juice

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "On Friendship" by Hagit Grossman:

 

 


 

7 comments:

  1. That's a hard one, but better that one makes peace with what can never be- but yes, hard!!!

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  2. How smoothly you led us from one view to its opposite.

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  3. Recognizing that letting go might be the only option isn't an easy thing, but... best do what must be.

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  4. Nicely done! Accepting a reality may be a daunting task.

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  5. Between a real friendship and a "romantic fling," who wouldn't choose the friendship? (People who've only ever had school friend, that's who.)

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