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Entry: The Last Days of Nescafe - A5243951
Author: poetique - U1602061

With a humble plea for your indulgence - and my profound 'thanks from the mountain' for same in advance - I am posting this for a short time only to allow a few characters a moment in the light of day.

They have, it seems, been too long locked in darkness (and they were beginning to get a bit mouldy 'round the edges).

I felt the need to let them breathe a little.

Thank you all.
p

Like it - a nice distinctive voice to this.

I imagine it is the beginning of something much longer - consider our appetite whetted!

sprout

Thanks, sprout. It is most certainly 'part' of something longer, but whether 'tis beginning, end or just a bit extracted from somewhere 'twixt the two is a matter of considerable - and mostly internal - debate.

I'm pondering. Wondering, and pondering. Oh, and wandering, as well, now and then.


p

Intriguing ..., the characters, and words, are ones to wonder, ponder and wander over a few times.

Glad you let them out for a while, p.

"black as the blood of bugs and icons of ebony" - I love the poetry that these characters of yours come out with - glad you're letting them breathe the light of day!

don't let them get mouldy round the edges any more - send them this way!

its an interesting thought - I guess many writers have characters locked away in the darkness of the secret-brain - I suppose letting them out is art, and keeping them in is ? .... but then I suppose it is the right of the writer to keep them in also -

sometimes I keep writer-world things in my brain for ages, just in case its not the time or place to let them out, and I used to think it would impair me, but in fact it doesn't. They get out anyway - just when I think I am being normal in the supermarket, the monkeyman dream spirit winks at me from behind the soup cans -

don't mind me, I'm always straying out into thought mazes -

thanks poetique

Helen

"blacker than the end of a dream" - you missed that one

but thank you, this is better than a midnight coffee

Thank you all.

I only wish I was making a bit more 'progress' in this 'work in progress' . . . .

Alas...

p

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CAC Team

another poetique moment! we are blessed indeed!

Helen

Oh, Helen... you sweet talker you.

(In all honesty, I never expected this, er, 'fragment' to attract much comment, let alone a place in The Post! It's a very encouraging development indeed!)

Thank you!


po(eti)que