Tortuous Delight

Say Anything assignment, Week Three, Dr. Melissa Crowe, Introduction to Creative Writing.
September 22, 2013

Tortuous Delight

Simple pleasures of glorious creation,

Childish giggles and delight.

Ambling articulation

Methodical, pausing, selecting,

Purposeful and intentional,

Bogged, paralyzed, flogged, beaten,

Train derailed.

Amusement garbled, happiness mutilated.

Ramblings expand, frustration explodes,

Grasping, plotting, scheming, grabbing,

Unraveling, chaotic climax!

Inspiration resurrected, confusion forgiven

Excursion resumed, deliverance,

Mission accomplished.

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Author: Mack Ames

I teach adult education, including high school equivalency test prep, adult basic education, and Work Ready for Corrections, a workplace readiness course at a correctional facility. I am married with two sons in high school. I have a dry sense of humor and try not to take myself more seriously than necessary.

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