Jabber on, Jabberwocky of Freewritehouse! I love these!!
And I laugh/wince/cringe at the truth about handshakes blown out of proportion and heightened sensitivities, and you remind me now of Mother Goose, and how "four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" meant something to the original audience that today's readers would never guess.
The feral cat! OMG! How unexpected:
the feral cat in my yard
still somehow has balls
even though I trapped him
and betrayed him
And the closing line: high-impact.
#Love it!
Wow. Thank you so much for thinking this has value. I mean, it has some truths in it like any freewrite does, but I really thought this would be of no interest to anyone else. Makes me wonder. Maybe I COULD write something like Lincoln in the Bardo, one of my favorite books.
Of course you could!
Gotta go check out Lincoln in the Bardo....