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Peggy Goodale's avatar

Europe. You are doing fine. Embrace your diversity and pro planet policies. Keep supporting democracy. Thank you for helping Ukraine.

Mags's avatar

They were being polite. Reports I've seen, say that Europeans are pissed . I don't blame them

Cash Flow Collective's avatar

Could you please help me finalize this Valentine’s Day poem:

”Love has been showing me its other cheek.

Wherever I follow its trace, it goes missing.

Is it me not playing the part right,

or am I auditioning for the wrong casting?

I think that he has been a failure since day one,

only now are some realizing it.

But he is reaching out again, with a different tone—

a velvet script, all honeyed lines and practiced moan.

Same actor, new mask, same empty house he’s known,

I call and call, he hangs up the phone,

even when we’re together, I’m alone.

I keep mistaking echoes for answers, footsteps for someone choosing to stay.

Even hope, lately, feels secondhand, creased at the edges, smelling faintly of smoke.

Then let the curtain rise without me.

I am done rehearsing tenderness

for an audience that forgets my name.

Done memorising lines written

in disappearing ink.

Love keeps changing costumes backstage,

powdering its bruises, adjusting the light,

swearing this time the ending will hold.

But I have seen the trapdoor’s hinge.

Heard the hollow under the floorboards.

Felt applause that sounded too much like thunder

over an empty sea.

So let the masks speak to each other.

Let velvet promise what bones cannot keep.

I will sit where the house lights never reach

and learn the quiet art

of not mistaking echoes for voices.”

Dennis Berry's avatar

Beautiful! Hope you’re having a great weekend! 🔥

Joan Steiker's avatar

Was Rubio’s speech written by his master(djt)? Wouldn’t surprise me as Rubio seems to always bend the knee.

BG's avatar

Mini Marco & all the kings horses can’t put Humpty Trumpy back together again.

Fuck your white billion airs, hateful racism and ignorant climate destruction. Fuck you Rubio. Trump destroyed America’s credibility. He’s a lying, ignorant scumbag. And you are his water boy.