Challenge
Tell me something new
I want to read your individual take on anything BUT telling it in a way I've never heard before - not in books, magazines, movies, tv, films, video games, advertising, social media, quotations, cliches, school. Tell me something new. I'm not looking for experimental formats just simple solid writing from your individual POV and vocabulary. It can be fiction, non-fiction, a poem or prose - no rhyming. 250 word limit.
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black lives splatter
paint me black
paint me brown
brush me up
while they brush me down
paint a smile
no, wait, paint a frown
canvas me around
give me a voice without making a sound
paint me black
paint me brown
paint me in lack
then paint me in a crown
paint me over every crack
paint me on the ground
it’s where my color has bled
it’s where my fists pound
paint me until you win a plaque
paint me, astound
paint me
paint me
until it’s you
and ain’t me
paint me
paint me
damn it, paint me
ever oh so vividly
yeah, make them see
oh won’t you paint me
and set me free?