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Tuesday, 1 April 2025

IT'S NAPOWRIMO 2025!

 Tahitian Chicken Curry with Coconut 2025

 

She had a thing for Tahiti; 

that’s the hell of it. She’d no clue

what it was like. She’d seen photos

of beaches, figured that’d be

the life for her: endless sunshine. 

 

Not this dull place, this sullen place. 

She couldn’t have known. It doesn’t 

make her the moron that buddy 

boy suggests she is, hell-bent to

blow whatever popsicle stand.

 

Intellectual lacking, he says. Hers,

not his. He thrives on it, on the 

notion of devotionlessness, 

if that’s even a word. A lack 

of devotion to you, he means. 

 

According to him, she’d have picked 

anything: the Caymans, Fiji, 

New bloody Zealand. She wished to

be flighty. Less about her, more

about you. Luckless as ever. 

 

And that guy she admired, what’s

his name, the Route 66 guy

romanticising a bum who

was an intellectual, don’t

you know, scoffing at foppery.

 

Buddy boy doesn’t like this, though

we picture the two of them with 

bindles, living their best life. She’d

teach him. Can you help a fellow 

American down on his luck? 

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