I labor steady, slowly, surely. Block after block, hewn from my ruin. This hapless task at hand. Construct a habitation of words. I use whatever I come by, wherever I happen to be. With an eye for the concrete and a feeling for sky. I’m a weedy terrain, dried up from AA and a searing of spurn. No smoke, no rain. I’ve been looking for signs or instructions: there are none. Or far too many. So I set out simply to make. A noun, a verb, an adjective; pasting with participles and pronouns. Tedious, thankless, alone. I build, it crumbles. It cracks, I evolve. Not much of a shelter, but it holds. And remains, opening up to the night.
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Polysemic Stupor 
I love this. A beautifully constructed metaphor.
A writer using construction metaphors to describe his laborious task.
That’s a unique and creative approach. Well done.
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Nice work! I feel like the character in your story every time I write. I love the line, “Tedious, thankless, alone.” I can relate to that.
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thanks…seems it could go on.. and on… and 🙂
be fun to word each brick and crevice
thank you very much
Enjoyable! Great metaphors. And who among us cannot relate?
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Awesome metaphor and solid writing style!
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original — and it worked. Liked it.
thank you much!
I loved this very unique approach and so appropriate.
Great take on this prompt!
This is the first metaphor response to the prompt that I’ve read. And I must say… just lovely.
Here’s my much less graceful attempt:
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” I’m a weedy terrain, dried up from AA and a searing of spurn.” <– love this sentence. you own this one.
thank you very much 🙂
thank you ever so much 🙂
thank you!
thanks a loT!
I always look forward to yours, always wonderfully crafted! Good one, again.
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thank you raina
“I build, it crumbles. It cracks, I evolve.” Says it all. Thank you.
thanks so much!