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Desert Bus 2024, Day 5. Carrie cares about the lives of tabs, and so do I. Twinsies?

Italic script. India ink and watercolour on wood paper.

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Desert Bus 2024, Day 4. Dan Olson is a thoughtful person. Welcome to the unhinged madness that is Desert Bus for Hope; please come again!

I felt like the words speak for themselves and needed very little. I edited and formatted them into a contemporary poem, and added a little accent. That's all.

India ink and watercolour on textured paper. Italic script.

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"Write a Poem", They Said.

"No need to rhyme", they said.
"Who'd have the time?" I said.

"But make it scan" they said.
"Give it a skipping gait, a steady pace, a fluid grace."
"If I can", I said.

"Use simile like a smuggler's pack.
Make metaphor a hollow shoe,
To sneak some subtle subtext through."
"Could do", I said.

"But never do as others do.
Always to thine truth be true."

"Mine?" I said.
"Fine," I said.

Andrew C.A. Elliott
August 2024

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I don't know if #culture can save us, but in times like this, there is little other hope.

I leave you with this #poem by #Palestinian writer and performer Rafeef Ziadah.

We teach life: youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHt…