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[ Thanksgiving 2020 ] Character Building

  
She said not to go
novella on her ...  
   
but I couldn't help myself;  
I was like all Korean    
love story binging on Netflix  
that she was Juonsing for  
   
And had you paid attention  
to subtitles, you'd know  
how plots tend to thicken  
---between us, it was so much    
more than six-month-old ganjang    
in a Seoul maté cafe  
   
Expressed in caligraphant lines    
she was anything but arche'typed  
   
expertly critiquing my witty writs  
and explicitly filling my spaces  
with verse of celebrated authors    
   
recalibrating my character  
from top down so that I    
properly stacked up  
   
Lately, she's taken to cornering me  
on the playground in such classic  
fashion with sheer exuberance!  
   
---lifting up that Teacher's skirt  
and flashing her latest secret  
trick-of-the-trade[ing] cards:  
a Morning Calm Oracle deck  
that keeps me spiritually balanced    
   
Beaming likewise, I'm on the straight  
n narrow, fast-tracked bullet-train  
to becoming not just a great poet  
your children's children's children  
will one day be studiously emulating  
   
but also who I was meant to be  
   
And for that, I am  
gajang gamsahada  
   
 
Written by JohnnyBlaze
Published | Edited 17th Dec 2020
Author's Note
for Ahavati with Love 💜
Happy Thanks[for]giving Besty! 🌞🙏🍁
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alphasisters/morning-calm-oracle
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