Charity Sunday: Adams County Animal Shelter

 

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For this Charity Sunday, I am going to send items to the Adams County Animal Shelter for their Smitten for Kittens drive. 

https://animalshelter.adcogov.org/smitten-kittens-donation-shower

The shelter is not currently set up to take monetary donations, so I will purchase items through Amazon. Thus, if I receive 5 comments I will send at least $5 worth of items. I hope that makes sense.

Here is the shelter's Amazon wish list.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3V00TS9TWBFL1/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

This donation is being made in honor of Lafayette, one of the best friends I've ever had in this crappy and stupid world.

The above image is the property of Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl/Naughty Netherworld Press/Poetry of the Netherworld. You are welcome to use the image respectfully as long as you credit one of the above. 

I shouldn't have to say this, but because the world is filled with shitty assholes, I am going to tell you all that I have no patience for the kind of person who, upon seeing this photo, says something nasty about my body or sanctimoniously declares that they don't like tattoos. I really don't give a fuck what you think about my body or whether you like tattoos. If you can't say something nice, fuck off elsewhere. Like into the sun, for example. The need to be hateful or behave in a holier-than-thou fashion says worse things about you than it does about me.

I adopted Lafayette and Tara from the Adams County Animal Shelter in March 2010. They had both been in their kennels at the shelter for most of their lives. Tara was six months old. Lafayette was 8 months old and absolutely wild. He kept tapping at me. He was completely agoraphobic when I first brought him home and hid under the printer table until nighttime. When I went to sleep, he came out and shredded my arm. It wasn't out of malice. He wanted to play. I had the vet trim his claws, and he learned how to play with soft paws quickly.

Those of you who have been with me a while may recall Tara from her post-surgery pictures when she had a benign tumor removed from her forehead. She looked like a juvenile Skeksis. 

https://www.naughtynetherworldpress.com/2021/05/charity-sunday-help-with-taras-medical.html

Tara is doing well overall. Following the chemotherapy treatments, the fur that was shaved off to do ultrasounds of her abdomen grew back a lighter color. 

Tara and Lafayette were either half-siblings or cousins. They were from the same feral colony. They shared the condition of feline stomatitis, which required the removal of most of their teeth. Both of them were quite inbred and had multiple health problems. Lafayette had multiple system failure and had to be put to sleep on his sixth birthday, 17 July 2015. My heart broke into a million pieces on that day and has never mended.

I originally posted the following poem on this blog on 12 November 2020. It honors Lafayette and Trinity, who didn't get along very well. They were jealous of each other. However, they both got along with the brothers Leon and Raymond (both gone now as well) who served as a buffer between them. 

Trinity died on 4 November 2016 from brain and lung cancer. As that was the same day that Donald tRump was elected, it is quite simply one of the shittiest days in history.

The poem also appears in my third poetry volume, December Mood. If you are smart enough to subscribe to my epic newsletter today, you will eventually receive a link to a free ARC of this epic collection. (Honestly, I'm still working on getting the new and better Naughty Netherworld News set up.)

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Every day I think of you

I remember what good friends you were to me

If you were the color of your spirit set free

I’m wondering what you would be

Lafayette, would this be you?

Did you become something like this when you rose away?

I thought that there would be more time to say

How much I love you every day

 Trinity, my colorful girl

With your beautiful, expressive eyes

Would I recognize your new disguise?

If only I could be that wise

I walk through the darkness of my dreams

With eyes closed fast, not wanting to see

The hopelessness surrounding me

Knowing what I wish can never be

~cie~

Acknowledgments

Picture 1: A Haiga created by me. Please credit Cara Hartley/The Real Cie

Picture 2: Beautiful You Are by Magic Love Crow

 https://magiclovecrow.blogspot.com/

Picture 3: Delightful Donkey by Gina Morley

https://daydreambeliever-gina.blogspot.com/

Picture 4: Carnival Dreams by Shelle Kennedy

http://sunshineshelles.blogspot.com/

This post was created using these prompts:

 November PAD Chapbook Challenge prompt for 11 November 2020 (write a color poem.)

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2020-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-11

Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #45

https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-scribblings-45-artistic.html

This poem was posted to these places:

http://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com

https://lbry.tv/@poetryofthenetherworld:9

 

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https://www.twosylviaspress.com/chapbook-prize.html

The depression glass trophy pictured at the top of the post is one prize you could win, along with $500 and 20 copies of your chapbook. 

Since I have nothing ready to share, I will write a special poem.

Ornery Owl has a lot to say

But time is always slipping away

Don't talk to me about fun

There's too much work to be done

And not enough hours in a day

Sadly, or thankfully, this piece will probably appear nowhere other than this post!

I mostly see prose from my fellow blog-hoppers, but I bet there are some closet poets in our ranks, and maybe even a few out in the open ones as well, but I haven't noticed!

While I always try to polish up my manuscripts before submitting them, I also try not to worry about if they get accepted. My current rule on work that I submit is if it's rejected the first time, for a year after that date I will submit it to other publishers if they seem like a possible good fit. After that it's mine to do what I want with it and make no mistake, I will self-publish it!

That's about all the damage I can do for now. I have a few other potential poetry publishers that I need to look at, and I need to get back to work on The Curse of the Ribbed Banana, the story I'm working on for submission to Dragon Soul Press.

https://dragonsoulpress.com/2022/01/01/upcoming-submission-calls-for-2022/

I know the title makes it sound like a comedy, but it isn't. It's actually a Lil DeVille erotic horror story. The steam has been turned down a bit to keep it in R-rated territory, but Naughty Netherworld Press will eventually publish it, whether or not Dragon Soul Press publishes it first. When that happens, we will turn the steam back up and anything goes!

I'm also participating in the Sixfold story and poetry competitions this month. 

http://www.sixfold.org/howitworks.html#howtoentervote

Stories and poems for the fall competition are due July 24. It's just $5 to take part. Receive feedback on your work and a chance for publication.

I've advanced to the second round. Many of the participants in the first round are new writers. Part of the challenge is to give these folks good suggestions on improving their writing without discouraging them. I always try to find at least one thing that I really like about any story. The biggest issues I found with the group of stories I judged in the first round were repetition and adjective overkill. 

I hope you have a great week.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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