The perks of being a wallflower
hiding where the wild things are
able to suck up their mania
and never have to fall
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
but I remain
having sponged enough chicanery
for one hundred years
of solitude
"ellecee"
Book Titles
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Where the Wild Things Are
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Inspired by today's prompt from
imaginary garden with real toads
Love this...bold wallflower
ReplyDeleteEllecee, I love this. And not just because you used two of my favorite titles. I love what it says about the speaker's ability to store energy from other's "mania" in order to use when solitude comes.
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning!!!❤️❤️
ReplyDeleteI like how the speaker seems to navigate two worlds. They are very much at home in the quiet, but they are just enough a part of a more rowdy world to understand it, take the small bit they need from it, but happily leave everything they don't need or want behind.
ReplyDeleteCleverly done. And now I am most intrigued to know what the perks of being a wallflower are (in the book itself, rather than the very desirable ones in your scenario). That's the one title in your picks which I had not heard of.
ReplyDeleteWell done! I like the two personalities in this, both of them being equally at home.
ReplyDeletea wallflower that secretly desires so much more...
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