Noodles (an acrostic poem)

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Nothing like slurping down long lines of flavor.

Or when they are all done, sipping the tasty broth that was left behind.

Oh, how his tummy felt nice and full when he was done.

Didn’t care if the base was chicken or beef or vegetable or fish.

Look, as long as those tender, slightly chewy, lengths of pasta were drenched in it, he was happy.

Especially with a bit of a spicy kick to make sure his tastebuds would wake up.

So when he was asked what he wanted for lunch, his obvious reply was…

Host (an acrostic poem)

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He was always so needy, sucking her dry physically and emotionally.

Oh, and the fact he was the center of attention, no matter what she did.

She hated it especially when he kicked her just as she fell asleep.

The tiny jerk better be nicer to her once he was born!

Dread (an acrostic poem)

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Don’t fear the reaper was a phrase that didn’t make sense

Reaper represented death, the end, that’s all folks

Everyone should be fearful.  They should be scared witless.

And that’s why he was so confused at the moment

Didn’t these people understand he was the real thing, especially on Halloween?

Blah (an acrostic lament)

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Being sick is always sucky, especially when it’s your stomach and intestines

Listing there aimlessly, hoping for the internal torment to subside

And yet all you can do is moan and hope for a break in your condition

How many times can you count the bathroom tiles?

Figure (an acrostic poem)

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Finding men talking about her curves all the time was quite tiresome

It made her wish they were a little less… conical

Geometrical arguments be what they may, the boys never added things up correctly

Underestimating her desire to derive their equations

Relying on a vanishingly small probability that she would be impressed by the results

Especially since their plots would undoubtedly be too small and dreadfully unenlightening

Creature (an acrostic poem)

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Capricious thoughts scatter across his mental landscape

Reason and emotion decorate his headspace with the creative and the banal

Everything coalescing into a morass of possibilities and probabilities

A prime candidate for the existence of a higher purpose

That life is not just reacting to environmental stimuli and hormones

Unless it concerned her smirk

Reducing everything to its most primal place

Especially as she purred, kneading him, keeping him awake

Beep (an acrostic poem)

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Being in IT when every computer on campus was making noises

Especially as they rebooted over and over again was not going to be good

Ernie knew he was doomed for a long long long day

Perhaps this was not the week to give up swearing, but he wanted to yell something.  “Oh …”