November PAD Challenge 2021: Ankle Soup

 

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running out of time as the money drips in and the reserves dry up

there is still no triumph as I trot through pelting dust to my grave

my brain has too many tabs open in place of morning papers and still I wonder why

my engine is running down, my wings have been clipped, but I can never be free 

the truth is, the price for striving to own the newest shiny object is too high

you are my witness as I split myself down the middle, leaving one half of me to slow down and make ankle soup from the pork hock in my freezer

~ornery owl~

prompts

https://godoggocafe.com/2021/10/23/brave-recklesss-november-creativity-prompt-challenge-autumnblings/

https://thesaxophoneplayerswife.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blogtober2021writingprompts.jpg

Prompt: Money

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-28

Prompt: Write a "slow down" poem

http://www.octpowrimo.com/2021/10/day-14-rain.html

https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/reenas-xploration-challenge-209/

Prompt: The picture

https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-188/

Prompt: Reserve

https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/wordle-529/

I hope that's all of them. It's so irritating when I have to come back and add one in after publishing.

Here's the cool 70s prog rock soundtrack that I was listening to while writing this poem.

Here's the link in case you can't see the video.

https://odysee.com/@TerminalPassage:c/sahara-subject-esq-%281972%29-sunrise-%281974%29:9?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

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