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the blue-dotted man swings his legs/and hand-traverses to near/the end of the curvature of chain-link fencing./after a  warmup couple of lower-body swings/he flips

and quickly is on top of the arc of chain-link.

near one of the fence’s supporting struts/he gains his feet, standing with some wobble/and looking up at the drone.

“It is only thirty feet or so to the water,” says the man, ” but of the dozens of jumpers this bridge has seen since it was built, only four survived.

“I hope to be the fifth. This invention of mine [pulls a squat cylinder out of a pocket] will save my life…or not.”

with that the man jumps off the bridge.

(end of part 2)

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This card started with a freeze frame from a movie that had a cityscape. I sketched from the image on screen till I had about 40% of the scape in rough form, then I watched the rest of the movie, went back to the sketch, and faked and finished the rest. It needed a foreground, so the woman showed up and said she needed age, wine, and a drone recording her rooftop solo soirée. I obliged best I could. “Now the Crostic. I am a Crone, no bones about it. And you made me look too good, but I’ll take it. Make the bookends DRONE and CRONE, and put a big tasty Ampersand in the middle. Good. Now keep the words to a bare-bones minimum. Use some dichotomy and some complementary. –You’re done for now, but if you make this into a large-scale painting choose better words. For now, though, just adjust the background a bit for consistency and balance. –That’s enough. –I SAID, that’s ENOUGH!!”

Drone & Crone

Daydreams & rhetoric
Recorders & survivor
Omnivore & seraglio
Nonetheless & deposition
Ecstasy & testosterone