15 #WorkingBackwardsFromMagic

 

The average life expectancy is 72 years

15

That's what I've got

15 to play with

15 to plan

We all share the same end

Where do I want to be

What do I want to be doing

Who do I want to be

when that final unavoidable goal is met

These are the last choices I will make

Then I must find my way back from them

to where I am now

and chart that course

in 15

March 6, 2023

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 13 of 100

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Bile 'n' Bone

 

She didn't hate herself

at least not anymore

She didn't have the energy

Her revulsion ran low

ran deep

at this point it was self-supporting

as easy

as the thought given to breathing

and as familiar a part of her

as the glasses she's had since the age of four

One clears the view

The other distorts the vision

All the memes and quotes post by

philosophy and psychology had their lectures

religion got nailed right in

and ripped right out

Dig deep within yourself they say

you'll find your true self beneath the pain

What if it's all

fat no muscle

blood all but gone

bile mixing with the last of it

Hitting bone

and finding all that's left of marrow

is dust

Part of what blows through the heart

to keep it beating

It likes to feel it's still alive

How do you rekindle passions with that

a bonfire of bile 'n' bone

March 5, 2023

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 12 of 100

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Well, !@#$ Me

 

Jars of words

decks of ideas

an internet full of inspirational imagery

And can I find

one thing

one moment

one vision

that makes the dead trees waiting for my touch

yearn like the arching back of passion

No

no I can not

I couldn't get desire to flow through the ink

if I slit my wrists with my pen

in sacrifice to the silence within me

to shut the hell up

so I can hear my voice

March 4, 2023

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 4 of 100

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