Voices
If I didn’t talk,
I’d never have much to say —
this is why we write.
This post was prompted by the Daily Post Weekly Writing Challenge.
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Rob's Surf Report 
If you didn’t talk,
I’d seek your companionship
in whispering grass.
An invitation
to join Ice-9, as it were —
“so it goes,” he says.
So it went, he said
as the computer failed, too,
Tough turkey, said he.
“Tough turkey”, ha! I’ll have to remember that one.
Thanks for the pingbacks! Happy Thanksgiving, keep writing!
And happy Thanksgiving to you! 😀
# 3 for me Forget Me Not (old-fashioned unrequited love in Prose and Haiku) | unaware but underlined