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Why can’t we see the beauty in all who reside here? Why can’t we tolerate the uncommon beauty of the unique?</p><figure id="0ee3"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*O0yQRWi965uH9naZEjS4HA.jpeg"><figcaption>© Dennett</figcaption></figure><p id="0d7e">Why can’t we give space to diversity and distinction? Why can’t we celebrate the uncommon elegance of the other?</p><p id="94fd" type="7">Florida, you make me blue.</p><p id="56f1">Dedicated to <a href="undefined">James Finn</a>, who shares bird photos with me ♥</p><figure id="81ad"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*yaXY24OGMwDF9Ja6.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="9a09"><b><i>This story is a response to Prism & Pen’s writing prompt <a href="https://readmedium.com/bodies-of-water-93109e1ea4e3">Bodies of Water</a>.</i></b></p><div id="e27c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/bodies-of-water-93109e1ea4e3"> <div> <div> <h2>Bodies of Water</h2> <div><h3>A Prism & Pen Writing Prompt</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*D9OXaVAjqLhCeKsa)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h2 id="e99f">Other Stories so far —</h2><div id="d681" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/her-greatest-sin-a326f06a58d2"> <div> <div> <h2>Her Greatest Sin</h2> <div><h3>Resist not yourself</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*BHnGNclav4IkErU1)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="4e84" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/tiny-pieces-of-you-40743f4f6b42"> <div> <div> <h2>Tiny Pieces of You</h2> <div><h3>Watching someone wash away, one memory at a time</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*Rr7_6FSFtMwJsHQh)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="d118" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-want-to-swim-but-im-drowning-in-you-b09c5c56694"> <div> <div>

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P&P Challenge / Bodies of Water

Florida Blues

A photographic poem of inclusion

A finger, a gun, a droopy dick — aqua surround with blue polka-dots

Fluid habitats for the many accepted in their beautiful queerness

No passports or green cards no IDs or questions born, live, die in anonymity part of the blue landscape

The natural state organic and accepting taking the foreign with the domestic

The wild with the tame no labels, no limitations find your place in the great blueness

Hold tight for the ride hurricanes and tornadoes hit without discrimination threatening all with equality

As water provides life she also cleans house some lost in the scrubbing some feasting on the remains

Life and death reflected in the depths and shallows no injustices in nature only rich realities

I look about and wonder if nature can be impartial why can’t those who claim humanity on this blue peninsula?

Why can’t we see the beauty in all who reside here? Why can’t we tolerate the uncommon beauty of the unique?

Why can’t we give space to diversity and distinction? Why can’t we celebrate the uncommon elegance of the other?

Florida, you make me blue.

Dedicated to James Finn, who shares bird photos with me ♥

This story is a response to Prism & Pen’s writing prompt Bodies of Water.