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Overcome by the signs of impending autumn
she falls

Author notes: wc 9 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784001-Brevity---18-words-or-less

My 23 and me is finally done
I find that I have some of Genghis Khan
Napoleon contributed a bit
If I had known it earlier I'd spit
Into that vial much earlier than now
It's so much fun, discovering the how
my endless talents flex their proteins
My cultured education don't mean beans

As we get older, we discover, sad
We owe it all, it turns, to mom and dad

Author notes: Image from the National Human Genome Research Institute https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783069-DNA--Tells--All---

The cold rain threatens to freeze me
into a popsicle
I'm on a dark Brooklyn street
halfway under a 1970 beaten up Pontiac station wagon
dim flashlight beam scattering off its scarred underbelly
trying to fix a sieve of a radiator
smell of antifreeze mixing with sleet and sweat
jeans soaked to the bone and stiff with ice
my winter raincoat smacking the bumper
like a wet sail with every gust of needle wind
fingers achy, bruised by repeated hand slips and curses
torrents of ice cold water burn my back
another turn of the screw on the clamp.
There.
She asks, business like, is it going to be long?
No matter.
She agreed to go skiing with me!

Author notes: wc 119 A completely true story, and the she is my wife of 38 years https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783011-Breakdown--

A huge fan of Dylan Thomas
Frank rarely left a bar of his own free will

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783969-Closing-Time---Dark-Brevity

Inspired by Google's motto
and loving a good pun
created dontbecivil dot com
Who knew it'd be the one

And now I've hit the lotto
and fly in my own plane
And judging good-v-evil
I do, but should refrain

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783978-Good-In-Evil-and-the-Evil-In-Good

Brought my resume, and detailed diaries
with murky pictures of sightings in our area
Been on to them for years!

They said don't call us, we'll call you

Good thing there are lots of ads for ghost writers in this magazine

werewolves prefer worlds
with many moons in the sky
adore gas giants

Author notes: Image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784045-7th-Month-Haiku---Full-Buck-Moon

Upon reawakening
the patient was disappointed to find out
that there was no clinical death at any point
and so the light probably was
just the operating room light
coupled with some anesthesia

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784020-Picture-prompt-write-to-the-image-in-maximu

Diving in Santorini's turquoise crater
among the ghosts of lost civilizations
you imagine the tidal wave reaching Egypt
and destroying pharaoh's army

Let my people go!
you scream through your scuba regulator,
startling a passing parrot fish

But the Minoans stay buried
underneath the sands of time

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783996-Atlantis

He was a very good boy
Though a bit jealous when my son was born
We had to switch to best boy ever

Author notes: wc 23 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784050-23-words-or-less---best-dog---W.R.-Purche-noguest

For reason he could not quite put his finger on
she found his endless lectures on the duality of man
boring

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784030-Surreal-images-54

Was the expression
Until they found out
that postal workers
take offense

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783993-Offence