for UU Band of Writers, June 2, 2019
prompt/theme: pick a card from the What Do You Meme? deck and write about it.
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I picked this card (chicken running away with the caption "g2g bye"). Here’s what I wrote:
Don’t be chicken! Don’t run away.
Don’t give up, I want to hear what you say.
Don’t say bye, we need you to stay.
Why be in such a big hurry?
There’s nothing about which to worry.
There’s really no place to go, every place is crappy.
If you stay, you’ll be just as happy.
So stay where you are, and make it snappy!
Whatever you’re afraid of, look it in the eye.
Even if someone eats you, and you have to go bye.
You’ll make someone happy, and so you will be.
And just think, from life you’ll be free.
After all, there’s nothing more to see.
Settle down on his dinner plate; it fits you to a "T" ......
I don’t know what g2g means.
Must be some new meme, that’s why it’s on the card. But I don’t know what it memes, it seems.
Whoever does know, has something to crow about, and be happy about.
Everyone knows so much more than me.
I don’t know, so I’ll just run away and say "bye."
Notes:
I don’t know was also a "homework" prompt for this meeting.
g2g = got to go
Just months before the What Do You Meme card game was published in 2016, Justin Bieber had his first number one hit on Billboard entitled "What Do You Mean ?" It is one of his best songs. Over 2 billion views on you tube. I can’t help but hum it when I see the game. It may have been in the minds of the game’s creators too.
https://youtu.be/DK_0jXPuIr0
"Oh, I really want to know, Oh oh oh, what do you mean!"
If you got 2 go, then roam away from home and live even if you don't know how.
We also picked out a card at random from a deck of pictures cards, and wrote about what it memes to us.
The card I picked pictures a handsome dude looking out on the bay, while his own shadow looks at him. There's a railing protecting them from falling into the bay, and the dude is leaning against a sturdy carved stone. What does this mean? What do you meme?
The shadow is the soul looking and being aware, as the dude looks upon the water. The dude is wearing big sturdy shoes. Why does he need them, unless he's going to walk on water? Does looking at the water nourish the the soul that is looking at himself? Or is the dude just looking at his own reflection in the water?
Is the soul the shadow or reflection of the dude, or is the dude the reflection of the soul shadow? Maybe he is sitting and wondering and pondering this question. Does the water hold the answer? As he looks into the distance, he understands that he is connected to all, even if science confirms this or not. As he gazes out at the water, he sees that it stretches far into the distance, and is inscrutible. As the shadow soul peers into the dude, he sees the vast distance within himself that stretches out forever. It would be a long way to walk forever, especially on water, but that's why he has such big shoes.