BTT #47: Why Do We Lie?

· Why Do We Lie? Lying lends Breath to power, Unleashing wolves Sniffing, Rending Any whelp Hefting truth Into the air. · Lying lends Space for love, Delicately tangling In loam Between us, But twisting Spoiling Withering Underneath the sun. · And, Oh yeah, Almost forgot... Sometimes it’s just plain fun. - 😏 Lona Gynt …

BTT #44: Can a vampire help a transgender person to transition?

I am pleased to announce that this short story has been published in "Sissy Fit"  Alabama's only queer literary magazine.  It can be obtained through a subscription at the following link.  check it out and come have a Sissy Fit!  There is a lot of really excellent pieces in this Volume 1, No1, and I …

BTT #40: Four Poets You Gotta Read.

Hey Y'all.  Thirty years ago I was listening to a poet being interviewed on the radio.  Apparently such things happened back then and sometimes still might.  I don't remember who he was, I was busy driving on a busy Omaha winter road at the time.  He read a poem of his that had something to …

BTT #36: Broken Quadrille

  https://dversepoets.com/2018/07/17/poetics-7-and-7/#comment-141417 I was too lazy to edit so I broke the Quadrille.  yes, it was me, it was sitting around there all shattered and the entire dVerse had long faces, and said together, "HEY! WHO BROKE THE QUADRILLE???!!!)  I mean my poem was so awesome and each little word was just dripping with honey …

BTT #25: HarveyCat – Medical Transcriptionist

  Hello This is HarveyCat.  My human girl Lona has been suffering from rider's block lately.  I am too regally confident and self -assured to casually admit that I don't know what that is, but I think that it must involve some combination of dark chocolate and episodes of The Good Place.  Anyway, it also …

BTT #21: Real NEWSpeak and Fake NEWSpeak at the Seedy Sea.

  First:  Here is some recent Real News that does not make much sense: "The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.  Policy analysts at the …

BTT #18 – My son tries very hard to tell me a joke…

Son: Why don't ants ever get sick? Lona:  Ah yes, very good question son.  Here is the long answer.  When we closely examine the nature of the ant, we find that each individual ant has only the most bare of neurological structure.  Whilst this is constructed very elegantly to allow each individual ant to function …

BTT #14: Lona tries to save some money…

  Rezzing... rezzing.... whoosh! Lona Gynt arrives to start her day in Second Life and decides she needs to speak with her Kitty, the ever regal and smugly diffident HarveyCat... [15:59] Lona Gynt (lonagynt): Here Kitty kitty! HarveyCat, Lona's accountant, bodyguard, feline companion, and sometime conscience is sleeping languidly in some little corner of Elysium, …

BTT #6 Harvey Cat – Profile Snoop

Hello, I am Harvey Cat...   Lona is my human, but she is tired and just wants to sleep (you would think she was the cat).  I usually have her pretty well disciplined to answer my needs, but today she is just lying there.  I have stared at her for about a full hour (I think- …