Challenge
A Pencil's Life
Write a story from a pencil's perspective. Any format
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The Sharper Image
I write their words,
scribing voice of canards.
These are thoughts of the fool.
And they call me the writing tool.
Their words are very insipid,
often very vapid.
That is how they carp
crying I’m not all that sharp!
They call me a medium
as if from some ghostly séance.
Medium, mediocre
In-between, go-between.
average to the core.
My body whilst they whittle,
a spirit they can’t little
Clad in anonymity,
with nary a compliment,
I’m just a writing implement.
No sparkle’s reserved for me
atop illumined marquee.
The script is very über,
the writer is so super
I meekly ask,
“But what about the pencil?”
The critics shake heads sighing,
“The pencil, what’s the point?”
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