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PROMPT: Historical Figure

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Daily writing prompt
If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?
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If babel fish existed or I could have access to a fluid translator, then perhaps Drukpa Kunley, (or, alternatively, Hanshan or Ikkyu,) because I would like to know how that level of freedom is achieved (and whether it’s all it’s cracked up to be.)

If I was on my own for language, maybe Thoreau or Whitman. (For largely the same reason.)

A Madman’s Lament [Common Meter]

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Sitting naked beside the road,
stripped of all I'd once owned.
I see a flower stare at me,
and recall being stoned.

The painful thumps upon my flesh,
the cracks internal heard,
the racing breath, the anxious feel
as my sight slowly blurred.

What crime is madness, I wonder?
What is it to be free?
A slap to faces of all those
tied to the old birch tree?