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más</a> <a href="undefined">Wolfie Bain</a> | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that writer’s block, join in on this tiny challenge and write a response, wherever it takes you! It can be a tiny poem, a shortform piece or an essay — whatever comes into that brain noodle!</p><p id="d35d"><a href="https://readmedium.com/submit-to-the-brain-is-a-noodle-d9f9398fea4">Submit it to The Brain is a Noodle or be sure to tag me in your response if you publish elsewhere, so I can read it and share it with the world!</a></p><p id="525e">Be sure to hit the 💌 button if you want these daily challenges delivered directly into your inbox!</p><p id="1854">Hi I’m <a href="undefined">Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)</a> and I remember constantly feeling like I wasn’t enough for not meeting these insane rules being applied and written, until I reached out and asked how others were coping with the rules, to be told that <i>oh, no one actually needs to follow these rules, X doesn’t care. </i>Yet, X doubled down backwards to ensure that I followed every last <i>minute</i> detail followed the rules. That was eye-opening. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Poems-Pandemic-Collection-Moments-ebook/dp/B09FKQCFGL/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qi

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d=&sr="><i>PS, I PUBLISHED A BOOK 📚</i></a></p><p id="1616"><b><i>Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳</i></b></p><div id="874c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/protection-852a8acb6edb"> <div> <div> <h2>Protection</h2> <div><h3>One-line poetry prompt: Shade</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*0rrJp35YKUB4vpIYEaTVVw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="1cd0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/walking-in-the-rain-916bf55e9028"> <div> <div> <h2>Walking In The Rain</h2> <div><h3>Monday: Fresh rain brings hope</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*e_-yHC9yIVxZcuPf)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="c526">^ by <a href="undefined">Simão Cunha</a></p></article></body>

Written in the Rules

a poem

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

You say it’s not racism because you’re simply asking me to follow rules

but until you contextualize that you only enforce the rules when it comes to BIPOC and that specifically for us there is no leeway,

we see a bigger picture systemic pattern.

Poetry Prompt: Interpretation of Rules

Inviting Kyomi O'Connor | Marcus Chan | Kate Lynch | Raffaella Ferretti | Carlos Garbiras | Yan Huang| Bob Pepe | Mark Tulin | Las siete y más Wolfie Bain | if you’re up to it and anyone else interested to smash that writer’s block, join in on this tiny challenge and write a response, wherever it takes you! It can be a tiny poem, a shortform piece or an essay — whatever comes into that brain noodle!

Submit it to The Brain is a Noodle or be sure to tag me in your response if you publish elsewhere, so I can read it and share it with the world!

Be sure to hit the 💌 button if you want these daily challenges delivered directly into your inbox!

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and I remember constantly feeling like I wasn’t enough for not meeting these insane rules being applied and written, until I reached out and asked how others were coping with the rules, to be told that oh, no one actually needs to follow these rules, X doesn’t care. Yet, X doubled down backwards to ensure that I followed every last minute detail followed the rules. That was eye-opening. PS, I PUBLISHED A BOOK 📚

Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳

^ by Simão Cunha

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