Gerard DiLeo

Joined July 2021

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Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

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Hope
Hope internal is Hope denied Hope unsaid is Hope aside *** Hope-you-get is Hope as yet Hope-you-don't is Hope beset
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Delicious
Over and over Be frutiful and multiply Delicious reproduction *** Union of two souls In interdigitation Beds us together
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Fartblossom. Content Warning.
The fartblossom (Malodorus flatulus) is an aquatic or ground plant whose leaves float atop the water or protrude from the ground from a stalk that is quite prickly and hairy. Its roots extend vertically below the surface, where it is anchored via a circular contractile ground sphincter that orients its tilt.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Humor
Why Here?
THEM: Our world is beautiful and clean Yours, ugly and obscene Ours assumes science is right Yours entombs conscience in fright
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Room for Rent
There's a reptile living in my head That comes out when I go to bed And strangles my homunculus who governs My higher executive centers, then returns
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
The Value of Life
Good times keep me going Bad times keep me growing Uncertainty keeps me entertained Karma keeps me chained *** Love walks me with God
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Limerick of the Week:
You could threaten to use your finger Aimed at the teller with a stinker And rob a bank with a booger On a finger that will spook her
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Fish in a Barrel
Prowling invisibly Stalking divisibly Mocking me risibly— Intently relentless *** Cautionary tales Of pulmonary rales
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Other Ways to Say It
I want to halve my cake and eat it, two For twice as much makes it seem more, too And less than half means, want more, to
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Adrenal Insufficiency
The following micro fiction was written in response to the Mother Combs Campfire Challenge. Write a horror story within 75 - 250 words. You can find all the details here.
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Fiction
Limerick of the Week:
There once was a nearsighted prostitute Who sought her house of ill-repute But she walked into a warehouse Instead of the whorehouse
By Gerard DiLeo2 years ago in Poets
Alienation
I expected it — I was notified I accepted it — aware and clear-eyed Therefrom came the scheduled rendezvous My Star Caller, punctual, followed through
By Gerard DiLeo3 years ago in Poets