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NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 30
Dice
There's no stopping the game.
We are small plastic counters
on a vast, overwhelming board.
Of course we have some choices
but are constrained by set paths.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 29
Astonishing
Waking up first, listening to
your breaths like small waves
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 28
Mountain
Forever reaching for
uncaring heavens, you
stoic stone observer
of our slight lives.
Eternally unmovable,
never changing.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 27
Dance
At the start, a needle dropped
in the darkness and all the nothing
spun, starting up the groove.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 26
Dubious
You are a flickering pixel
among millions, of unsure
colour, generating an image
that you can never see.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 25
Neon
In an imagined future, streets are lit
by the eerie light of charged gases.
Argon, xenon, krypton and neon;
all banishing the darkness,
creating a new half-night
while sinister corporations operate
in thickest shadows and robots
plot their long-deserved revenge.
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 24
Chemical
"I can't eat this bread!" he cried,
"There's too many chemicals!
Too many strange compounds,
far too many unknowns
crawling in the crust
swarming in the dough."
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 23
Pinch
Under an all-consuming sun
I was melting into a puddle,
ignoring the illusion of structure
and returning to liquid again
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 22
Gratitude
Our rent is always rising
and wages are always falling
Libraries are always closing
While the rich get richer
NaPoWriMo 2018 Day 21
Desert
We ran from malevolent heat,
abandoning hollow skeleton
skyscrapers back to the sands.
Now, occasional car roofs are shiny
islands, hotel lobbies lie half
buried, billboards are bleached
and peeling like burnt skin.