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Downy pen, as light as day Well, it is... On the one side anyway
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Mar 8, 2021
Mar 8, 2021 at 4:20 AM UTC
Quills
she's no deva of mine no caterpillar concubine no cocoon consort no butterfly courtesan she's four tigresses in one suckling, wandering, denned and leashed And I'm following the track of them all She's my white tigress of Nanjing and though I haven't ever practiced kungfu nor qigong I have applied to be her jade dragon Or at least one of her green dragons In order to help her to reach one of her nine illuminations. So I fused my qi and ching and shen and turned myself into a Knight of the Order of the Porcupine and offered to gently tatoo with my quills Her mound of Venus with a motto of invisible yet immortal ink saying : "Qui s'y frotte s'y pique" Written phonetically [kisifrotsipik]. I thought because I sat just like a buddha I was at that moment a buddha I thought that if I breathed like a green or jade dragon She'd let me have a bite at her immortality. No way, my tigress said : You just can't be and have been
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Aug 28, 2019
Aug 28, 2019 at 5:28 AM UTC
My immortaless is a millenial
A porcupine doesn't have many friends Due to the needles that stand up at the ends No one really cares when a porcupine cries No one is there to weep when one of us dies No one ever approaches a hurt, sad porcupine Can't even attract a drunk with a case of wine No one wants to get close enough to start to care No one, for a small porcupine, is ever there Tears fall down their cute, small needled faces No one ever pays any attention to their small cases From place to place, we porcupines wander so slow There isn't a warm welcome at any place we go Seems like porcupines just can't please anyone
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 9:24 PM UTC
Can't Please Anyone- A Porcupine's Tale