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Jul 14·edited Jul 14Liked by Honeygloom

See in the mirror my features

how they fester, rot, and burst -

a pretty word, 'necrotize',

for such revealing

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Such a disturbing image! Necrotize is a really pretty word. Need to start a list of pretty science words for gross things…🖤

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Metastasis

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Operculum

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Smegma

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😂 Ok, making a list off line, I really do need to get some writing done.🤣

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Adipocere

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Ictus

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Skinnydip lover

You enter through a stillness

Take me from inside

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Oh man, this is so disturbing. Completely agree with Caro, so lovely and dark🖤

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What can I say, Gloomster? I love these prompts - they bypass my tendency to overthink. Big big thanks to you and to A.P. Murphy for introducing me to them.

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I’m so glad you enjoy them! Definitely looking forward to all your future entries🖤

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Wow! This is horrible wrapped with lovely! Another good one, Doug.

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Bless you, Caro. Many thanks!

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Flesh eating bacteria is a real thing? Who knew?

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Wonders never cease 😅

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It watches, and waits,

Poised to feast, without a care,

Go swim, if you dare... 😎

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Nice! Love the rhymes🖤

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Such hysteria

Over lil' bacteria

Easy to scare ya

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😂 But they eat flesh, my good clown, right off your body.

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It's really really really difficult to actually get a necrotizing disease.

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I know, I know, but it’s fun to think about.

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*fun

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You may not have noticed, but I’m a little weird.

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Nah, just different.

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Sword of Damocles , Hollywood movie;

Hawaiian Vibrio vulnificus

Actors swim mid en scene

Bacteria bites. Out of fire world begun.

Toxic superfund cut. EPA, FDA wait.

PFAS drunk. HCP germ killer damage nerves

Flesh eating bacteria to respond

To consume. No time to waste.

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Woah, this is a story I need to know more about. Fascinating🖤

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All there to follow . . . Connect dots to create pictures.

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Ha! A treasure hunt!

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Much more than “The truth is out there”. Look at Super Fund (established 1980). Sites have not been cleaned. Toxicity continues. Wonder why cancer rates increase?

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