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403 contributions to Aftertongue by Stay Zen
🩺 TRICKSTER-TEXT THURSDAY: WORD SURGERY
Theme: One letter can change everything. (Activity) Perform surgery on a word. (Exercise) Take an ordinary word and remove, add, or replace ONE letter to create another word. Then write a micro-poem where both words matter to the meaning. Rules: Keep it to 1–5 complete lines. The letter change must be intentional. Make us catch the trick, not just read the words. __________ My Offering (Example): Word: Whole → Hole I spent years trying to become whole. Then life removed the W without warning. Funny how one missing letter left a hole, and somehow I had to become the W to make myself whole again.
🩺 TRICKSTER-TEXT THURSDAY: WORD SURGERY
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Seize-size The goal is to rule the day. Seize any opportunity that comes my way— because it may never present itself again. And when you look at it like that—procrastination has to take a backseat. But unfortunately, how big or how long My to-do list is, dick-tates when and how things get done. Presenting new priorities of importance. Demonstrating on a regular, how challenging life truly is. So SIZE does matter in regards to this.
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@Angella Kim-Mack
MoodMark Monday - Oct 26 (National Mule Day) 2026
(Activity) Inner Weather Check (Exercise) Name your current internal climate using weather language. (Rules) One phrase or term or syllable. No explanation. Disregard rules if needed. —————————————————— Here’s My Offering (Example): It’s Raining Men- It’s raining men- ace. To society’s Black women, malpractice is standard operating procedure. According to Zora Neale Hurston, the eyes of those watching God, see the Black woman as the mule of the world. It’s raining men- dacity—lies, manipulation, and betrayal. Modern medicine has a history of letting Black women suffer. It’s raining men- struation because doctors are using their pads incorrectly; they’re prescribing a treatment that Black women are allergic to; they’re letting Black women suffer because they can’t feel their pain. It’s raining men- tal breakdown. At Prisma Hillcrest Hospital in Simpsonville, South Carolina, they admitted a Black woman into Room 237. That’s the same number as the hotel room in the movie “The Shining.” No wonder they tried to kill her. Heeeere’s Men- ingitis-like inflammation! Heeeere’s Men- ingococcal-like infection! And it’s reigning men—the patriarchy, a president, and physicians—who are the source of the downpour. #FromTheHeartTheMeteorologistSpeaks
MoodMark Monday - Oct 26 (National Mule Day) 2026
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I’m covered in a meteor shower of crimson. The skin I’m in. Rich with melanin Doesn’t appear to command the equal validation it’s due. Or perhaps its what spewed— in clear intonation— Conveyed in the Kings English That was forced on our ancestors and down the line. But it’s not enough. They don’t appear to understand the words that are coming out of our mouths. Do we have to mime, delivered it in sign? Maybe braille? To demonstrate that we feel as any other human feels. That we are susceptible to pain. We should not have to explain— any further without having to file malpractice. The lack in sensory perception is mind blowing. And to think our health—our lives is in the very hands of those that took the hippocratic oath. But then again, according to Google, it does not include the words ‘do no harm.’ So perhaps it is working as expected.
Trickster-Text Thursday: Linguistic Disturbance
Meaning Is Slightly Unsupervised Here (Activity) Let Language Loosen, Giving Linguistic Disturbance (Exercise) Post one to five lines where language bends, slips, or misbehaves. Short. Witty. Unpolished. (Micro Poem) Let meaning drift just far enough to notice. Topic: The Silent Partner 🤫 Every word has a story, but some letters have been working behind the scenes without ever being heard. Choose a word containing a silent letter and give that letter a voice, an attitude, or a confession. Make the silence suspicious, the spelling rebellious, and the wordplay intentional. The Challenge: One silent letter. One unexpected revelation. No more than five complete lines. _________ Example: The K in KNOW finally demanded recognition. Said it was tired of being present but never pronounced. The N accused it of knowing too much and saying too little. K replied, “I’ve been keeping quiet, not keeping secrets.” Funny how KNOWledge keeps its secrets right at the beginning. The letter may be silent, but your pen doesn’t have to be.
Trickster-Text Thursday: Linguistic Disturbance
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Roux (/ruː/) is a mixture of flour and fat cooked together and used to thicken sauces.[1] Roux is typically made from equal parts of flour and fat by weight.[2] The flour is added to the melted fat or oil on the stove top, blended until smooth, and cooked to the desired level of brownness (Per wikipedia) The 18th letter basically said there’s only room for it (R) and u. It’s Romantic in that way. So it gave O the heave ho and told it to bounce. X-it stage left or right. OX didn’t have to go home, but it was told don’t let the door knob hit them where the good Lord split them. But no worries. Ox went on to where its most appreciated. Where it can do some good. Oxycodone.
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@Angella Kim-Mack
This Weeks Prompts 10/18/26 - 10/24/26
Took a break last week but back this week. Happy writing.
This Weeks Prompts 10/18/26 - 10/24/26
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Recycling thoughts that keep polluting my environment We say quite often to leave the past in the past. To look ahead. To keep things in the rearview. What matters is the present and what you intend to do in the future. Which is hopefully to make better choices— to learn from the errors that you made before. But the thing of it is, we play blind. What good are eyes if you don’t use them to see? All of this for what we think is a piece of happiness. Yet we perpetuate a toxic cycle. Our minds are like a washing machine. On wash— Rinse— Repeat. But the clothes are becoming thread bear. We cover it in fabric softener, thinking if they smell good, it’ll be as if the relationship or whatever the case may be, is brand new. But it’s just a façade. It’s the same old clothes. We may pair it up with different garments to create many an outfit, but it’s the same clothes. When we need to be packing things up to give away. For someone that may know what the hell to do with them since apparently it’s not working for us. I wish I knew how to advise because we’re all guilty of this. We just looking for love, attention and appreciation. And finally towards the end of life, we want peace. But until we have a made up mind to do what’s necessary, we will continue sabotaging our peace for the trash that our thoughts contain.
WHPB Prompts: 10/17/26
Miss Lady Another One Bites the Dust / You’re not special / ON Meds / You Can Get PTSD Just From Watching TV / News Can Be Bought / The Profit from Problems Russ/Do you know how many needles I’ve had/I am not consuming the news, the news is consuming me/Attention is the most important currency we have/Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity/There’s nothing in the dark that isn’t there during the day/the tears started to flow/Trauma is a moment that fractures one’s idea about how life is/I was on the wrong burger
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Attention is the most important currency we have. The one thing that is truly valuable and rare is attention. So valued, in fact when people are not noticed— When people are looked over— When people are taking for granted— They don’t feel respected. They wonder about their purpose. I would venture to say this may be the one thing that causes people to commit suicide. Because their life seems worthless— without any real direction. If they’re made to feel this way on a consistent basis, it’s like what’s the point. It’s not just between lovers, but in any relationship in general. When you grow up exposed to others that ignore you and what you have to contribute to thought— to a conversation, you start to reevaluate. When you see where you stand in regards to their priorities, You begin to ask yourself “Why are you even here?” That’s when you realize you have a serious decision to make. Do you continue on this hamster wheel— putting up with people not appreciating you, or do you fall back? No one‘s gonna love you like God and yourself. Life is so short. And in order to live your best life, you need to stop investing in people that don’t invest in you. Choose your peace of mind. Choose people that prioritize you. Because attention is the most invaluable currency we have.
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Ericka Floyd
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B’klyn NY born. Began writing poetry regularly after pandemic. Appears in multiple anthologies and 1recent publication. Mbr of Tesoro, A.R.T. & AAWA.

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