Today’s task on NaPoWriMo.net is a spin on an acrostic poem. Use a quote and create a line for each word in the quote. I have picked a poignant quote from a favorite author of mine. Enjoy the irony!
Risk Factors
Life sentence lip lock.
Is six-feet under safe from
a chill and a cough?
Disease segregates us, a
sexually organized apartheid
transmitted as hate and stigma,
and the cheap protective wear
invariably rips and fails,
fatal, blue-gray pale.
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and invariably fatal.
Neil Gaiman
Cover Art: 17-year-old Ozioma Eunice
Yard Sale of Thoughts 
Brilliant, are you. A stunning poem, K.
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Thank you kindly, Jeff. It was difficult, and if memory serves me correctly, I felt similarly about acrostic. Maybe it’s the forced form? I love this quote, though.
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You’re welcome, K. Always. Yeah, could be. There was a time when I was writing a lot of form poetry, yet am not called to it at the moment. I adore Neil Gaiman.
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Of course. 🦋Well, good taste is added to the list of your many virtues.
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Clever woman!
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Thank you, Hobbo. I am now ready to teach class. 😊
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Lucky pupils. I need a mentor 😂
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A womentor would be better. 😂😂
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🤣 A womentor would be perfect!
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Quite a complicated style to master, but you pulled it off with flying colours! 🙂
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Thank you. I think I muffed it a bit, but I appreciate this. 😂💜
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You did a far better job than I ever could, for sure! 🙂
P.S. I’ve finally (finally! 😂 ) managed to get that 6-part series all up and released online. Fixed all the kinks & hope you enjoy it! Take all the time you need & I’d love to hear your thoughts after each chapter 🙂 ❤
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🙃 nonsense. You take your amazing prose, wet it, ring it out, and see to it you hang it in the sunshine. I’m sure you pen amazing poetry or easily could.😎
Congratulations, Tom, on ironing out the series. I can’t wait to take it in. Bravo for what must have been a lot of hard work.👏👏👏
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So, so good my friend 👍🖤
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💜💜
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