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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Everyday Canvas #926885 added January 11, 2018 at 7:23pm Restrictions: None
Bitcoin Obsession and Chocolate
Prompt: What is something that a lot of people are obsessed with but you don't get the point of?
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“Let me count the ways…” But I can’t. There isn’t enough time and space. So it is meeny, miny, mo. Twitter following stresses, body image, bitcoin…Well, okay, among all those, I think I’ll talk about the one I least know about.
Okay, bitcoin it is. It is a currency. I get that. It is made for online usage. I half get that, and I don’t mind a currency to be used online, only. That could work. Just maybe.
But now, that bitcoin and digital assets idea have gotten out of hand.
Don’t we have enough currencies in the world and enough black markets for them, already?
I mean, go back a few decades, some countries didn’t let their citizens take out a lot of cash to use in their travels or business. Guess what? Those citizens bought foreign money, usually the almighty dollar, from black markets. Later on, Euro became just as usable as the dollar, but there are still countries in the world that don’t let their money flow out of their boundaries. True, bitcoin may ease this situation, but can you find a merchant to accept it for the things you most need, if you were, for example, visiting among the Sherpas?
If bitcoin was such a great invention, why would its inventor opt to get a fake name and remain anonymous? His alias is Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese name. My paranoid writer’s mind has come up with a few stories about this.
• He is really Japanese and wants to take revenge on the world for Nagasaki.
• He’s a terrorist of unknown origin (or you put in a country of your choice) who wants to mess up with the world’s money systems. In fact, my choice is that he is from North Korea and is a close associate of the rocket man, but I digress.
• He is an investor in some byzantine, electronically-complicated scheme, waiting for this currency to rise to the skies. Then he’ll do something to make it crash bigtime.
• Or he is a fourteen-year-old who went over his head.
Any other guesses?
Prompt: Chocolate is perfect food. It's wholesome and delicious. A beneficent restorer of exhausted energy. What are your feelings on chocolate? Write anything you want about this.
If candies were up for a beauty contest, chocolate, as weird looking as it is, would win hands down or maybe hands stretched out to get more of it.
The way I and my friends collectively go for any piece of chocolate, you’d think we’re practicing candy monogamy. How can we not? Chocolate, as plain as it looks, manages to dress in a variety of outfits and shapeshifts, such as the colorful M&Ms, Butterfingers, Twix, cute Dove pieces wrapped in sparkles, Snickers, Hershey’s Mini’s, Nestle’s any kind, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate…etc. Sigh! Fortunately, if I deplete my stash, I can always delve into the bag of chocolate chips for baking. Nothing will make me be without chocolate.
I bet chocolate is responsible, in its insidious fashion, for the crime of half my wardrobe items shrinking in size each year, but what’s a little bourgeois sin when the taste is kingly? I forgive it, and now that my mind concentrated so much on it, I think I’ll get a bowlful of chocolate pieces. Yum!
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