nomi @nomi@qoto.org

Looking out to space
Pondering infinities
Stars ask, "what are you?"

#haiku #poetry

3: don't you dare disrespect Don Quixote in my presence

Ah yes. How can anyone but admire the use of a parenthetical when you're already 3 commas deep. We are left with only two conclusions:

1: your life will be worse off for having subjected yourself to Cervantes
2: maybe it is funny in Spanish?

You think I'm joking??? This nonsense is 3 sentences long. You need a map and compass to find out what's happening in each of them... separately!

Usually a version is abridged to hit the highlights. Cervantes is abridged so you can rightfully look down on anyone wading a hip deep slog through that turgid prose

Anyone in the mood for trash talking Cervantes? Cause, my brother in Christ, I ain't got 2 pages to read to the end of your sentence

Quoth the bard: mo money* mo problems**

* books
** agony and ecstasy

The reason "essential" workers get treated like so much crap is because everyone else was already downsized.

Tackling life with ease
Every task ticked effortless
Skies burn bright at dusk

#haiku #poetry

#vss365 Very Short Story

The choice between tears or a tantrum was never hard for Tesia. So when her tears began to form, she reached for a hate hard like diamond. She wore it tight around her neck because it hurt, because it stopped the tremble in her throat. "You don't belong here you skaggy little bitch, and you never will."

The words were someone else's that came tumbling out of her mouth. Mirroring a time when she was younger and positions were reversed. The new girl turned sobing and the necklace loosened with a new link forged in the chain.

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

Sky greys over town
Orange flowers leave the roads
Wintertime arrives

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

Aspire for small things
Dreams like microwave dinners
Attained in moments

#haiku #poetry

Lie to me sweetly
Let me believe it is real
Don't let truth bind me

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Any time I see something described as "chilling" on the internet, I know the rest of the post is going to be super boring. Same with someone getting "slammed" or "destroyed".

CHILLING! Biden DESTROYS local granny by saying "no thanks" to get cookies

Stop looking at me
Keep your dirty eyes off me
I'll cut you, tater

#haiku #poetry #hungry

#vss365 Very Short Story

A sharp rock cut his toe as he looked over the cliff. Friends waved from below. They swam in a sea so blue the horizon ceased to be. Three wet steps and he leapt a great swan dive.

He soared ever higher as the wind rushed by. The rock, the cut, everything vanished in perspective. With a splash he plunged into the sky and came up laughing.

Woof! Snap! Boom! Cha-ching!
The onomonopia
Meaning beyond words

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Tenuous testing
Edges felt, contours caressed
A thought nearly born

#haiku #poetry #goodmorning

How can I possibly be nonsense???
I don't even have a hexsense, septsense, or octsense!