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Wednesday 2 April 2014

NaPoWriMo Day Two

Day Two
NaPoWriMo 2014

Three Word Wednesday CCCLXXII

I did the prompt at 3WW
the words today were:
Gaunt
Decompose
Vile

Here's my attempt:

CASA BLANCA
It’s me that wants to paint the whole house white
Sally was right once you start you can’t stop
After the first wall it’s hook line and sinker
All that vile and peeling Mongolia gone

Gone to goodness knows where under the chair
Like the little mouse that the cat chased there
Gaunt and buried under three layers of paint
Pure brilliant white matt emulsion so clean

Gleaming like a Spanish Urbanization
Up my stairs and down in the old front room
Outside the masonry paint is gleaming too
I want to rename it Casa Blanca

Lancashire was never like this before
The little mouse begins to decompose
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My Day Two from 2013
And here's another piece about Sally.


23 comments:

  1. Ooh we are clapping our hands..this is a bit of a trip..reminds me of the The Yellow Wallpaper..some colours take hold like vermin..

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    1. Thanks Jae, they say there;s no accounting for taste.

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  2. it's like the white can whitewash everything clean but the bad is still underneath.

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  3. Excellent. I've gone on painting binges too, and generally with white. Better than old magnolia anyway.

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    1. Glad you got the Mongolia/Magnolia reference. Thank you.

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  4. Many years ago we were invited to view a friend's redecorated house which was exactly as you described yours (in the poem). We were both horrified by the ugliness of it, like a corpse drained of blood. Mind you it wasn't on the Costa Blanca!

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    1. My house in real life is much worse than my poetic one, and it's not on the Costa Blanca either.

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  5. I like the sense of freewheeling abandon, even though decay might lurk beneath all that pristine white.

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  6. White color give us satisfaction for while after some distracting things...but then one may start to feel like hanging on the pictures or else...~ love your free will

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    1. Thanks Humbird, maybe some pictures with black frames would be good.

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    1. You paint pretty good words with your poetry!

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    2. Well, yes, I guess there's that. Thanks!

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  8. Ulan Bator is the capital of Magnolia... It means 'Red Hero'... but it's all white by me...

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    1. Thanks Stan, I always thought it was called Urban Atol and was the home of the Sky Blue Tower!

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  9. I really love all of this, and Casa Blanca? That's just fabulous!

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  10. You command sounds so well! ANd I don't know if I' reading more than you intended into this, but I'm seeing Spanish urbanization and the decaying mouse as the Madrid/Spin housing boom/bust? No matter, the images and sounds are brilliant.

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  11. Casa Blanca and Spanish urbanisation makes a farm shack seem pretty good:)

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  12. Some friends of mine are heading down under next week. Me? I'm still painting!

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