28 to Create, Day 7 – Not My Usual
For this prompt I was not sure whether it would not be fitting to create something unusual, that is – not poetry, not fiction, not writing at all. But, remembering that I have tried that before, and I didn’t like the results, I decided to stick to the power of the words.
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Not in my usual mood
of letting time go unnoticed,
I make a to-do list
which is so detailed
that it hurts my fingers to squeeze
the pen for so long.
Not my usual daily thing
of never watching TV,
I turn the telly on
and stare emptily
fixing my sneer on a bright spot
just to the left of the
anchor’s ear.
Not so usual to wash
my hands a hundred times
scrubbing them madly
with soap
and then scraping them
with a dry rough towel
until it scratches
bloody marks all along my pure skin,
I wash away the usual
indifferent me
with apathy
packed in a dry paper bag
to go.
© 2014, soulmary
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