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Man's best friend minus:

Time and work and love, add: fear

Recall your effect

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Awesome, love a little math + history inside a poem🖤

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Bright red blood stains the

Altar of the lupine lord;

The pack's offering.

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Nice! Some arterial blood with my coffee🖤

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Today’s Grimm-y world…

Red Riding Hood canceled for:

Triggering a wolf

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Poor wolfey, just trying to survive…

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It wore sheep’s clothing

For the soft comfort

Because they made it feel good.

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*wraps self in wool blanket* yep this checks out. I love that this brought a cozy blanket to mind BUT ALSO made me think of a wolf burrowing inside a sheep carcass a la Han Solo putting Luke inside a tauntaun on Hoth.

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I love that! Cozy and a Star Wars reference. Totally nailed it! Plus I probably shouldn’t admit how many random things bring that tauntaun scene to my mind.

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Operator: Internet 911, how were you offended online today?

CWS: Uh, someone used the wrong haiku format, 5-5-7, instead of 5-7-5, in an online haiku chat group.

Operator: Is the poet armed?

CWS: Not sure, he might have a pen and possibly a bootleg version of Windows 7.

Operator: Go to your online safe space and wait for authorities to arrive.

CWS: I'll be ****posting on Instagram. DM me. Later...

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R U OK?

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Ha ha ha. Maybe...

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Try petting moss. It’s weird and funny and also feels good.

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Goodness… I’ve broken form before (though it still adheres to the 17 syllable rule with two lines of 5 and one line of seven), but never have I been honored with such an elaborately outrageous drama of a response. Thank you.

Though I will say that the form change was intentional. I wanted to sort of represent the inside out take on the phrase I was playing with.

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