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Aug 15
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All the ideas are taken


All the ideas are taken
and I don’t know what I should write.
Being one inch tall and a giant awakens?
Or maybe the power of flight?

No, it’s been done; I’ve seen it before!
To steal their ideas would be theft.
I’m sitting here with an empty page,
but there are simply no ideas left!

You see, Hollywood knows what it’s doing –
rebooting an old film or just making a sequel.
And if that doesn’t work
‘cause they need some green,
who’s to stop them from making a prequel?

But I don’t want to do that.
I want to be new! To make something fresh and exciting.
If I had been born
a hundred years in the past,
I’d have so many ideas for my writing!

Then my 6-year-old bro says,
“Wouldn’t it be cool – the story of an outer space hen?”
And I look at my page, start writing things down,
realizing what a big fool I have been.
 
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  1. aesythe
    Aug 16, 2018

    This is hilarious! I often feel the exact same way - how could anything new be left to say? But you proved yourself wrong in the writing of this piece, which is the obvious genius of it. Great rhyming scheme too. Thanks for the laugh.

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  1. LukeTheDuke
    Aug 16, 2018

    Thank you for the comment!

    Luke Michael

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  1. It's the cat
    Aug 19, 2018

    That is really funny! But if this is really how you feel you should just try writing random words down and then molding them together. That's what I do a lot and it really helps.

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  1. S.Reid
    Aug 21, 2018

    We're waiting for the story of the outer space hen!

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