Michael Victor Bowman
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Michael Victor Bowman
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Writer, tinkerer, poet. Long name, short memory. Dogs are my favourite people. AuDHD michaelvictorbowman.com
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"If you are going to write fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; westerns, history, anything that seems interesting, because if you only read and write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff."
- Terry Pratchett (1948 - 2015)
The #dog lies on the ground like a crime scene.
I walk the long way around him like an investigator anxious to preserve evidence.
One eye cracks open and lazily follows me.
"Hah!" I exclaim in triumph, "You broke character!"
He farts and goes back to sleep.
Rumors of my demise
Did prophesise
An end to bad verse
And thus held
Little remorse

But here I am
Polluting your timeline
With free verse
End rhyme
And anagram

An Englishman but using Chicago spelling
Whenever I can
And dropping
Punctuation
To save characters
And appease that little
Blue circle
Bravado surges, flying ants... I never look at something the same way, again, after reading your work. You must be a poet, or something 🤔
"On the hinge of a maybe"

You have a real talent for combining ideas that don't collocate but which, together, elucidate in a way that conventional English struggles to match. In other words, you're a proper poet! 😉👍
Came across this at random, but find it interesting that other regions are experiencing these almost equatorial extremes in weather. In the north of England, I've noticed we're down to three seasons: had a heat wave over Spring that killed everything, now Autumnal Atlantic cold winds and rain.
Another chip pan fire in the galley. Captain likes em greasy!
Maybe this is the reason we evolved fists 🤔
A #sparrow hawk came calling.
Left a feather on the deck
and a partially skinned rat
behind a plant pot.
How did he do that?
Deglove the body so neatly
with just a beak and talons
when I can hardly slice a chicken breast
using stainless steel
and a modern kitchen.
Nature does it best 👌
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My mother made me
#promise
that when it was time,
I would not try to care for her
at home.

Then the time came, and
she
changed
her
mind.
So I spent a decade
of my life
Being her caregiver.

I helped Mom through
Her final years.
But in the end,
I was the one that died.

#vss365
Hi. I was working my way through the Book of the Dead... sorry, the new members email 😉 and it mentioned there is a Bluesky account, and that members should DM it to make contact. But the DMs are closed!
Hello @sfpoetry.bsky.social
My membership email told me to DM you, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Just checked your profile. As a fellow NT I should have noticed, before posting anything ambiguous. My apologies.
By way of explanation, mentioning DoS and games is often a way of getting other "kids" from that era talking and laughing. At least, that has been my experience. My friend, I think you have taken this all a bit too seriously.
I had my tongue firmly in my cheek. No worries!
They say a picture is worth a thousand words... I present the case for the defence!

Shady place?
Yes, I can't parse this, either 🤔
Unless you spent your childhood abusing autoexec.bat and config.sys so you could fool a game into running on your cheap, low end, PC, and then having to learn code to fix the mess you made of the bios, then crowing about inventing the .pdf format ain't the flex you think it is, my friend 😉😁
First thing I saw today after opening the app 👍

That last stanza is a brilliant use of language. Bravo.
What, in the name of etymology, is a "rumpleturd"? 😳

And what must I eat in order to get one? 😆