April 29, 2024: Look What You Made Us Do

Today’s prompt is Merriam Webster’s 10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs. Pick a word or more, and go!

I couldn’t help but explore some some facts and offer some tips o’ the wing to the great seabird albatross. I’ve made more than a few references to other, extant, works, as might be expected from this mighty creature. As the very long—and very short!—month of April winds down, let’s have a bit of a lark, shall we?

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Albatross

All the hype and all the hate, it’s
Impossible to understate
The enormity of that big bird.

Seven days is an eternity in this cycle
When the weekend’s done, I can’t remember
What Friday weighed me down. Set sail.

Around my neck and in my lungs
I soar, I crash, I burn. This air
gliding hunger to dive down deep.

A lightweight worsted fabric is in my wings,
A mollyhawk, a goonie bird, I am not a gull.
I am a prince. Grey clouds I stalk. I burn.

Do not weep salt tears, do not follow
Me from coast to rocky shore. I am consistently
Under par and over head.

I am a single word, circled. You know what
The first rule of flying is?
Never look down.

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