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write another tragicomic poem about fate and bad genes? do I go to the grocery store and buy greens or order Ethiopian food from Door Dash? do I do the dishes or wait to see if they do themselves?— </i>this foggy limbo, Lethe, Hades of Indecision, Tantalus in the Land of Ambiguity, and those are just the practical questions, before I float further into the philosophical clouds of good and evil, asking hypothetical questions nobody in their right mind has an answer to… Born in ambiguity, swaddled in ambiguity, groping and half-dreaming in this fog, like some wandering baroque oboe piece from Albinoni, floating from one indecisive accident to the next accident, like some caterpillar who is pretty damn certain it is about to turn into a lizard</p><figure id="ddca"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*EKixybRps0UC2SclDqgiQQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@lasclay?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Lasclay</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/caterpillar?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="c9a5"><b>© Carlo Zeno 2022</b></p><p id="2b64">________________</p><p id="0f4e">Thanks for reading, and thank

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s to <a href="undefined">Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)</a> for the provocative <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-do-you-deal-with-uncertainty-and-ambiguity-251ffabcbcfa">prompt</a>. For more, try two just below…</p><div id="311f" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/sophoclean-plot-d45389ee9ec9"> <div> <div> <h2>Sophoclean Plot</h2> <div><h3>A poem on accidents</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*TKlAjrT3o4Q5E72Yr8OMuA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="3fe7" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-perfect-storm-7521c3956b4e"> <div> <div> <h2>The Perfect Storm</h2> <div><h3>In between laughter and terror</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*zCTS_FFyO7_vKm8B)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Writing Prompt

Born From Ambiguity

Clouds of indecision

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Ambiguity, that fog, pall, smog cloud, drifting over my city of thoughts like some fat procrastinating cat waiting to be fed some piece of deep fried conviction so as to act decisively, in one definite direction, one straight line of success, only to realize it’s a ball of yarn some sarcastic sadistic puppet-master pet-owner is gleefully pulling around in a bored fit of experimentation, fooling me every time like a rookie kitten on catnip leaving me dazed, dizzy, and dimwitted in the same cloud of ambiguity I started from, like — what direction do I fucking take next? do I write or clean the toilet? do I keep my shit job or look for another? do I pick up the phone to break the five year ice age with my mother or write another tragicomic poem about fate and bad genes? do I go to the grocery store and buy greens or order Ethiopian food from Door Dash? do I do the dishes or wait to see if they do themselves?— this foggy limbo, Lethe, Hades of Indecision, Tantalus in the Land of Ambiguity, and those are just the practical questions, before I float further into the philosophical clouds of good and evil, asking hypothetical questions nobody in their right mind has an answer to… Born in ambiguity, swaddled in ambiguity, groping and half-dreaming in this fog, like some wandering baroque oboe piece from Albinoni, floating from one indecisive accident to the next accident, like some caterpillar who is pretty damn certain it is about to turn into a lizard

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© Carlo Zeno 2022

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Thanks for reading, and thanks to Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) for the provocative prompt. For more, try two just below…

Poetry
Ambiguity
Indecision
Fate
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