Challenge
topics of randomness: assorted nuts edition
dear theprosedotcomniks! it is here again, those randii. if you, against all better judgment, choose to participate in this unholy mix of unrelated topics, then simply choose one, some, all or none of the following topics and write whatever you wish about them in whatever form you see fit.
and the topics are : 1)Wheeler's trading post and general store. 2)the day Rusty (the honky tonk player) died. 3)Alchemy and Astrology, learn to get along. 4)the penguin-shaped building, and other embarrassments. 5)things that the 25$ you got selling your story would have got you in the distant past.
6) early techniques of plumbing the depth of the Irish sea. 7) pole vaulting in the age of uncertainty. 8)the contents of Johann Dzierzon's pockets. 9)Magma chambers, and the smurfs that eat them 10)how the grinch deragulated the railway industry. 11)what Keith Jarret's Köln Concert teaches us about celery. 12)Timbuktu, and the fabulous horse races. 17) the missing six topics and the alternate universe where they are the only topics. 19)Zafod Bíblbrox and his can-do attitude. +-+-+-+-+-+-+&--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-good luck, and may the flow comnence...
alchemy and astrology learn to get along
you were
astrology
dancing among the stars,
your fate mapped out
in orbits and constellations,
consistency and security.
i was
alchemy
in its crudest form,
substances
thrown together
in the attempt
to create
gold.
but i remained
leaden.
you were
schedules and science
i was
improv and magic
and we
danced
until magic and science
became blurred,
both of us
occupying the space
in between.
we learned
to be more
than fact,
more
than fiction.
under the glow
of the stars
even lead can
shine.
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