Almost caught up with posting…Saturday’s 30/30 Poetry Facebook prompt was “I admit”
At the Fiction Writers’ Meeting
Hello, my name is Bruce, and I write fiction.
(All: Hi, Bruce.)
I write really specific fiction, about mycologists.
(nods of encouragement)
Mycologists who go into outer space
to look for fungi on other planets.
(supportive silence)
And study it. And write papers. And present
those papers at intergalactic conferences.
(non-judgmental silence)
And who belong to a secret society dedicated
to establishing an interstellar mycorrhizosphere
and thereby conquering the universe.
(interrogatory silence)
Um, that’s all.
(All: Thanks, Bruce.)
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