i think that using contractions in a precis is cheating; semi-colons and hyphens, however, are totally fair game (as are parentheses and words like totally).
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precis #31
today is the last day i will ever be thirty, and i have mixed feelings about that; perhaps that is all there is to say.
precis no. I-10
there’s things i oughta be doing,
places i oughta go;
but one hand is twirling my hair, and
one foot is gummed to the road.
precis no. 8
It is like standing in the eye, amidst torrents of devastation and destruction, with the shrapnel of debris leaving small welts all over my heart.
precis no. 7
two roads diverged in a yellow wood… and no matter which i choose, i end up retracing old steps, sinking deeper into my own footprints.
precis no. what?
In the mirror, in a manner of speaking, sits a teenager in skinny black jeans, disarrayed, adjusting glass jewelry, pulling her hoodie over her eyes.
precis no. 5
- June has been inordinately gray this year – enveloped in rain and clouds – and the sadness that Winter left behind has had no incentive to leave.
