Reanimated Lavender Granola Switchblade Nun rides again.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Olga

We were texting.
Olga said, 4 a portrait.
I told her no 1 does ur portrait in the middle of the night.

She knew,
yanno,
to be careful of older guys in chat rooms and stuff,
but this one walked right in,
said get ready,
come downstairs.

I said, where r ur jewels?
She said, in my dress, stitched inside.
She sent me a j-peg.
I said you rock that, girl. Now sneak
out. Meet me at Bigby's.

She said idk.
I said, they got BOGO. Just come.
She sent an emoji and that was it.

Years later, living in New York City and older than shit,
we still were BFFs.
She'd been sober 27 years.
I'd been divorced twice.
Sometimes she'd see Putin on the television and trash him in Russian.
I found her a meme of him falling off a horse,
and showed it to her on my phone.

We laughed til I started coughing.
She banged her palm against my back until I could breathe.
"Thanks, Your Highness."
"Fuck you," said Olga, but she meant "welx".
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for Izy's Out Of Standard.
 

15 comments:

  1. OhMyGoodness.
    This is pure genius. Pure, evil, genius.
    I may or may not have just snorted liquid out of my nose.

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  2. once again, your creativity amazes me.

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  3. Interesting, lot of sass

    Much love...

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  4. This one is boxing clever! I enjoyed the sardonic texting dialogue. Just well fucking done, dear!

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  5. So so clever. Hope you are feeling better. k.

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  6. Brilliance! Love the dialogue. :)

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  7. What a fantastic idea, which only you could turn into poetry this good.

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  8. I thought this prompt would speak your language--and here you speak two, blended into the way things just R. And I'm thinking in French the more it changes the more it stays the same, n'est pas? Very important to always keep your jewels stitched up safely.

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  9. Ha... I was drinking water while reading... now I sneeze it through my nose.. My emoji are all ascii alas :-D

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  10. Oh yes, you can run with a challenge. Love the text interplay. Great stuff!!

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  11. poetic texting combined with character driven story line - none can do it better. This challenge was FAR beyond my creative abilities....

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