Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The 10-Day New Year's Challenge - Day 5

January 5. A Memoir Is Not a Status Update, by Dani Shapiro

Your prompt for today:

Write what you would never dare post as a response to the question at the top of every Facebook feed: “What’s on your mind?” What has been welling inside you, concealed, ready to burst into poetry?

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I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're gonna hear about them...

No, not that.  I mean, yes, that.  But not just that.  I've got a lot of problems with me, and nobody needs to hear about them.  Isn't that what social media is?  Self-effacing humblebrags that hint at our insecurities while hiding them under a veneer of visual or verbal filters that make your everyday shit sandwiches sparkle like caviar?

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