Friday Writings #134: It's a Dirty Job

Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! I am slowly but surely recuperating from my brush with COVID-19. Most of the household got sick. Only Darling Youngest remained unaffected. I am super grateful he was able to keep the house afloat and everyone well stocked with tea, water, and soup. 

So in honor of his Herculean efforts, I am using "It's a dirty job but someone has to do it" as this week's optional prompt. What thoughts come up for you when you hear that phrase. As always, I'll take poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction. Just be sure to keep your entries to 369 words or fewer and just one entry per person please.

Next week, Rosemary will ask us to take one of our poems or stories and turn it into a new piece of writing by removing some words and/or sections.

Friday Writings #133: Summer Words

Greetings, dear poets and storytellers. How are things in your bit of the universe? I hope they are less infectious than in my corner of the world, since we are in the middle of a COVID spike. My slightly useless immune system and I are staying at home. If we must venture out, we mask and are more paranoid than usual. This is more common in the fall, but it seems summer wants to show that it can be a viral boss too. Oh, well…

…speaking of summer, for today’s optional prompt, I invite us to find inspiration in one of the following quotes:

1. “Do what we can, summer will have its flies” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “Deep summer is when laziness finds respectably. ~ Sam Keen

Required: Add the direct link to your response to Mister Linky. One post per participant, please, 369 words maximum (excluding title), for prose and for poetry.

Optional: You may share old or new pieces of poetry or prose, and you may write to the prompt or to a topic of your choosing.

Requested (not compulsory but strongly recommended): Visit other poets and storytellers. Read their contributions. Share your thoughts with them.

for next week, Rommy will be asking us to write about the phrase “It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.” I won’t do it. You can’t make me. Well, maybe. All right, I’ll do it!

photo by Lionel Gustave, on Unsplash