Bored to Death - Zappai and Oddquain

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Tanka Tuesday Challenge No. 244 

 

 photo prompt:

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/66272

 

Resting my ol’ bones,

I’d kill for a cup of tea.

It’s all a ghost town.

 

Wait

at Death’s door,

dead as a doornail.

My skeleton key got lost.

Bones.

©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

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  1. JimSeptember 22, 2021 at 7:49 PM

    Nice word play, Lisa, every line!!
    I don't hardly ever drink tea but I do like skeleton keys.
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    1. LisaSeptember 22, 2021 at 8:29 PM

      I had such fun making a list of all the idioms with death, skeleton, ghost, etc! I even thought of "death row" references row houses! I found a site that lists all the phrases (well, I'm sure it can't list them all) searching by key words!

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  2. LisaSeptember 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM

    I had so much fun with this prompt! Thanks!

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