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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 10h

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 13h

#vss365
We face a new wave of societal morality—
our choices deemed #libertine,
our freedoms twisted into ehat they call sin.

Our survival is deemed degenerate too;
they label and libel,
they shade us in shame.

But I choose to walk in sunshine,
and when it rains,
I will be a rainbow.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 1d

#vss365
Here’s to the nameless muse flitting through life, unaware of their combustibility.
They are an incandescent spark that ignites our creativity and the #ash we scatter when our fire dies.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 2d

😁😉

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365
We meet in a liminal space
I call family—

My thoughts demand voice yet betray me as they leave my lips.
Lost in babel, they escape definition, to #clash with intent.

Your ears open as your heart does not—
you accept these refugees,
believing what I cannot defend.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 3d

#vss365
The #advert misled me
with its #elastic guarantee.
My waistband snapped
in the hallway—
my panties slid down my knee.
My #associates pointed,
snickered, and stared;
I just kept walking,
as if I hadn’t cared.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 6d

I did.🌻 I love when the words just fall into place.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 6d

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 6d

#vss365
I lie here
lay here
exist

Between open bottle
and dirty blender
emotions squeezed
#pulp clinging to pith

My zest still green
tinged with naivety
ah, I am a sticky mess
but not your counter to clean

I only want to be
to gather fruit flies, gnats,
ants who sip my sadness
until it is gone.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 7d

#vss365
Storm season came with a thunderous downpour.
Emotions spilled, and everyone sought refuge.
The abandoned left to find an #oasis—
a place to wait out the torrent.

But this season was worse than the last.
This season brought irreparable damage.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 8d

Young people are all I know these days. So here I sit, waiting for some fanfare.

a woman in a yellow sweater is sitting on a couch with a picture frame in the background

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for the p4ompt inspiration. 🙏🌻❤️

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 8d

#vss365
Without photos,
we try and recall
our childhood.
A scrapped book—
sharp-edged,
tear-faded,
half-written.
Our abandoned lore.
Fragmented memories #blur
as we blend
our experiences
into something...
something we can bear.
And with time,
we learn to live
with our truth.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you. I hope their story ends on a healing note. 🙏🫶❤️

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 9d

#vss365
What a #conundrum!

A life lived—
happily? well…
married,
nearly 20 years.

They don’t speak,
can’t share a space;
A son voices wishes
in the ruins of disgrace.

A family
weighed in hands
by a civil servant
paper mountain of demands.

Paper dolls
glued together
ripped apart—
changed forever.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 10d

#vss365 2 of 2

He spoke his truth,
though painful to hear—
he’d #sublimate her lies
in an alchemy sincere.

Judge was taken aback,
yet still she must rule;
weighing all evidence,
he prays she is no fool.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 10d

#vss365 1 of 2
In chambers of #caprice judge
a young man faced his fate.
A #sonorous truth he spoke—
he prayed his words held weight.

Under judge’s #scrutiny,
his #escutcheon cracked apart—
a family shield now fractured,
exposing his guarded heart.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 15d

#vss365
My #eventuality
became reality.
My future,
my potential,
still my choice—
for a limited time.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 16d

#vss365
The #bellwether of morality
is missing—
nowhere to be found.
Humanity is scattered;
lost, we listen for a sound.

Wooly-eyes flock to social media,
graze blind in mirrored fields, of choice,
feed on psychopathy,
#reinvigorate a discordant voice.

Where have the shepherds gone?

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you, for saying. 🫶

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 16d

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 18d

#vss365
Your hand slips from mine,
you turn away,
blending into a clique of friends.

Shame’s blush fades
as you fade from sight.

#Perhaps this is a stage
we all pass through
before our parent
becomes a person.

By instinct,
I touch my gold cross,
think of Mama's sacrifices
for an ungrateful me.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 19d

#vss365
Everything feels
#catastrophe.
Even good isn’t
as good as could be.
But when it’s bad,
it spins way worse.
This is the fabric
of my anxious universe.

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 19d

💜🫶🌻

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Vicie Ree aka Auntie_Social @vicieree.bsky.social · 20d

#vss365
A wife and mother
took oath to be true
But when she testified
her life turned askew.

Her words came out bitter,
an #extrusion, sharp, amiss.
Judge gave ruling—
socially relabeled “Mrs.”
to plain “Miss.”

No longer mother
no longer wife
sons went with their father
freed from her toxic life.

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