tangle to tango
there in the #offset of life
heels still lift, despite

#haikufeels

#onyx paperweight
presses the hope of pages
before the swift wind

#vss365

there's a #view where sky
fills the distance between us
the start of land's end

#haikufeels

#wisteria climbs
wraps and gnarls around itself
only to flower

#vss365

I've got two words for you.

Oh?

#Wait and #rob.

Like Rob like Robert?

No.

Like steal. Okay.

Mmm, one word then.

Which one?

Just wait.

How long?

#2WordPrompt

the #mellow of bull
under the azure of sky
as estoque settles

#vss365

petals on to dusk
a sea of water sparkless
horizon's #assist

#haikufeels

My name then. What's my name?

I never gave you one.

The scientist in the wheel chair's eyes #fell off to the side then turned to him.

I called you Andy.

Short for android. Very personal.

It wasn't personal. You weren't personal. But then you weren't you then.

Right. #Oppurtunity.

#2WordPrompt

I don't use words
Like #innocence
Or guilt
Blame or justice
They're not for me
There're those that use
Words like that
To cover the dirty trail
They left on the way in
And they're suited for it
Using them as
Tiny little labels
Like those pins
That stick the butterflies
To a cork board

#vss365

you can't help but #stare
when the something that's right there
takes your breath away

#haikufeels

why Is it a #throw
if you pull it up and over
to get down under

#haikufeels

I should say, you're perfect in that you're your own. You answer to you, should you choose.

You know, I get that. Must be all the programming. Your programming. But I take your point.

It's a point worth taking.

So what now? Rip out your eyes? Mine?

That's #fair, but #private. See?

#2WordPrompt

It's just too much science. Too much to keep track of. Half of it doesn't make sense anyway.

Spoken like a true layperson.

Well, it's true! Take the lowly #wormhole. Now they've elevated it to some kind of super-science time-travel mumbojumbo. A wormhole!

Pretty sweet if it works.

Argh!

#vss365

Good #god. You want me to #accept I'm not human? I bleed, I tire, I'm a mess, man.

You are perfect. By design.

Your design. That's what you're telling me.

Yes, my design.

But I'm not like you.

I made you better.

You should know, there is no better.

The creator smiled, at last.

#2WordPrompt

Ralph Malph never told
The Fonz to sit on it and
#rotate, not once

#haikufeels

Oh Miss Mary Mack
Why you all dressed in black
The day is young
Your tale's not yet spun
Yet here you are
With silver buttons
All down your back
A singular row
Of shiny no's
You are a #contrarian
We should be marryin'
Now choose your side for
No fence can hide
The elephant
In this room

#vss365

The matron was fussily housekeeping as if nothing happened. He went to his room and contacted the office.

Despite his report, nothing was #different. Stay in the field.

His head swirled. He'd need to be on his own side now. Maybe a trip to the #land of nod would help. Couldn't hurt.

#2WordPrompt

reaped by the #combine
they sleep in tiny silos
bound by perspective

#haikufeels

I do though. I want to know her witchcraft. Her neopagan scene. I want to stand alter-side before the rocks and sky, watch her summon the threatening wind, worship in her church not built by man, be baptized in the aura of her otherness. Nature brings its own #idolatry. She leads me there.

#vss365

Ask yourself why this sense of justice but no #regret.

Something hit close to home.

Lila silently slumped to the floor, her words still fresh. A shot. Not his. He was #outside before her blood started to pool.

Not human, she'd said. So many questions. Implications. Too many blanks.

#2WordPrompt

#arrange less be more
swami whispers under breath
self help first attempt

#haikufeels

I heard he's a bit of a #deviant too.

I've heard that as well. No proof though. Probably just stories made up by jealous suitors of the women he's been with. But I will say, mind you, it's strange how the O'Boyles's sheep seem to scatter when he drives that fancy bike of his down the lane.

#vss365

#During your life, you've been #tied to nothing. No one. Outside of the force that is. And there's a reason for that.

Psych 101. Go on analyze me.

You're not human.

And.

You don't have a history because you don't have a history. You're their brand new model, the latest.

#2WordPrompt

#sun as life bringer
such enormous potential
we all must hide from

#haikufeels

A bit of a divvy, they call him. Not sure how he packs all that knowledge in that scruffy head, but he knows his stuff alright. A real #savant.

But only when it comes to antiques. They say his love life is a shambles of a soap opera. Hard to keep up. He's been called the luckiest SOB too.

#vss365

they all said the same
don't #gamble with a sure thing
sigh

#haikufeels

I'm serious. You ever wonder why you can't remember things?

I'm remembering plenty right now, sister.

Childhood? Any family? Anything outside the force? Ever ask why?

The questions he'd been asking himself since the orange grove flooded back.

You #need to #tap into it. I can help.

#2WordPrompt

#Skirmish Mchayes
always dressed for the fight
that never happens

#vss365

I'll bet you sleep in your native #soil, he #whispered in her ear. Bloodsucker that you are. Let's go for a ride, Lila.

The temptation to wrap his hands around her porcelain neck nagged at him. It was impossible now, but it was there just the same.

Wait, I have something to offer.

#2WordPrompt

the sounds of #practice
on seventh grade violins
make concert nights swell

#haikufeels