EXERCISE: A couple of lines

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Original posting 9 November 2007

So, let's see. A bit of background. One of the local stations had an enka singer recently - enka is kind of Japanese blues, usually in a kimono, and often about the man who done me wrong and similar topics. Anyway, this one song caught my attention for some reason, with the refrain about the red thread.

So this morning, I wake up with the line

We sewed ourselves together with a red thread of despair

running through my noggin.

And chasing it was another line

We sowed our selves together with six red seeds of anger

Not sure why they go together, or even if they do, but what the heck. Use one or the other, or even use both together, and . . .

Start your poem or story? End your tale? Let them reverberate somewhere in the background? Twist some variation on the line(s) and use that?

There you are.

We sewed ourselves together with a red thread of despair

We sowed our selves together with six red seeds of anger

and write!