Happy Escapril! I hope everyone’s having a good day so far. I’m dropping my 3rd poem this month with @adventurerswritingguild third Escapril prompt combined with an AWG specific prompt from their lists! Day 3 is “Eye Contact” with “hand / god / knife.” I shocked myself once more with my writing. There was such emotion this nearly became a short story than just a poem. I channeled several songs and a Rick and Morty quote for inspiration.
Songs and Episode Playing:
Dynasty by MIIA
VILLIAN by Neoni
Freaks by Jordan Clarke
Randy McNally (No Love Like Christian Hate) by TX2
Heaven Was Full (I'm Headed Straight to Hell) by TX2
Step Over a Body by TX2
Rick and Morty S03E06: Rest and Ricklaxation
Trigger Warnings
Religious Imagery
Death mention
Biblical Scripture
Familial Abuse
Christianity Indoctrination
Animal Death Euphemisms
Zombies mention
If There’s (a) God…
By CJOAT
Will update with spoken poetry video later today. 👍🏽
9:01 PM: Updated with a clearer stitched screenshot with Alt text. Dropping the spoken poetry video below:
[#escapril Spoken Poetry] If There’s (a) God… by CJOAT for @adventurerswritingguild’s Escapril
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For my work to cause such a viscerally deep reaction in a relatable or impactful way is my whole drive for creating. When I was younger, it was just to create things that mashed folks smile, like Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night did for me. Now, since I’m aware of many difficult and often traumatizing concepts that folks go through but it kept being swept under the rug or shunned for any reason—I want my work to provide the space for discussion of the uncomfortable.
“Art disturbs the comfortable, and comforts the disturbed.”
That’s my main goal with my work. A driving force to not only comfort but build for better in society.
This deviated from the point of this update as it’s now 9:15PM; but I’m happy to have vocalized it. Today was rather turbulent, so I wanted to get it out.
