Does This Dress Make Me Look Fat?

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 QNv 28 

Quickly prompt:

There are questions that are never answered to anyone’s satisfaction...

Write, answering an unanswerable question. If the question is compact enough, you might use it as the title, then write about something else, leaving everyone who reads it scratching their heads and saying: What was that about?

(Sorry for the formatting, it didn't publish the way it looked in preview.)

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Why do we ask the unanswerable?
Some things aren’t meant to be known.

We must just want some comfort,

the reassurance to carry on.

For otherwise, we worry,

toss and turn in bed,

with questions spinning ‘round.

 

What happens when we die?

Has this deli meat gone bad?

Will this love last longer than before?

Who overflowed the sink?

Will that chicken reach the other side?

 

We’re all like the proverbial chicken,

always searching for more.

Just one more road,

cross one more road,

expect the answers waiting.

 

Does this dress make me look fat?
Are you kidding?
You look amazing!

 

(Sometimes the best answer to the unanswerable is a lie.)

                                                         

 ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

Comments

  1. Ron.November 28, 2021 at 3:01 PM

    I spin (& flip) in bed a lot, and the longer I do so, the more bizarre and unanswerable the questions become. Thanks for the capture.

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    1. LisaDecember 1, 2021 at 8:55 AM

      I know what you mean. The weird thoughts in the night! Worries that in the morning are easily solved. Usually.

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  2. purplepeninportland.comDecember 2, 2021 at 6:03 PM

    So true-that proverbial chicken!

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