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TailgateProphet

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Educator. Poet. Playwright. Liverpool. Bears. Baked Pasta (just kinda happened.) 💙

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Wailing Wall #poetry

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

What state did Grandma get runover by a reindeer in, exactly?

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@LoveHealthEd @lovehealthed.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I’m in awe of our vss community🙏 In order 2make change, focus can help. After understanding the true issue, the next step is to clearly define & focus on a goal The next word comes from the acronym GROW G is for a clearly defined goal. The #vss365 #prompt for 17Nov is #Goal

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

@youngliz.bsky.social thank you so much for all your incredible words!

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Here is today's poem called "Quite Cartographer" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #geography

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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

#vss365 #prompt #Nov6 Good morning! The next word from my Xword book index is #geography - not one of my better subjects from school, though I enjoyed drawing maps. I still prefer real maps - if I don't know where I am now, how can GPS tell me where to go next?

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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

#vss365 #prompt #Nov5 Morning all! When I flew from my then home in Tenerife to meet an agent, my kids hoped I'd become rich and famous. Unfortunately he turned out to be a scammer, which is partly why I have self-published my books. At least I can trust me! Today's word is #famous. Have fun!

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Here is today's poem called "Tapestry" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #education

It's all a turning spindle--
a single, coarse thread.

This life must be learned--
an education of work--
the patient, pulling truth.

There will be tangles--
knots formed + tighten.

It is only in the unweaving--
in the slow, frustrating,
grace of finding a single end…

do our own fingers learn
the original lie of the weave.

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Liz Young @youngliz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oops! #November4th.

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thank you!!!!

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Gleam" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #argent

The veil is thin this night--
breathing argent--
every leaf is edged
with a second, brighter life.

The common air itself
has learned to shine.

+ we, who walked in dust,
now wear the light.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 The colour of every mad scientist's hair - silvery white. Or the French for money if you prefer. Ooh la la, ker-ching. The word for Oct 29th : ARGENT #vss365 #prompt #argent

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Food is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Energy is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Housing is too expensive, controlled by billionaires. Wages are too low, controlled by billionaires. I'm going to blame... immigrants.

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "IRB Approval" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #experiment

The hypothesis:
a measured silence.

The apparatus:
two chairs, one unspoken thing.

We introduce a variable--
the accidental brush of skin--
You are always the experiment.

Observe the reaction:
a quickening, a warmth.

Conclusion: Inconclusive.

Yet the lab notes are full
of your name.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Mad Scientists, with their matter transporters and reanimated dead corpses, causing trouble. The word for Oct 28th : EXPERIMENT #vss365 #prompt #experiment

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Guest" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #terror

No, I don't want to creep by--
be silent amongst demons--
when I arrive, please,
tell him it's me, finally!

Yes, let Devil know I'm here
+ with all the terror I am,
there is hell to pay.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Monsters that lurk under the bed. Aliens that invade from strange worlds. Serial killers in the neighbourhood. Keith, going to the chip shop in just his underpants. All create... The word for Oct 25th : TERROR #vss365 #prompt #terror

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "You Should Smile More" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #unseen

The mouth
a quiet line.

Teeth unseen--,
no sound to give it away.

But deep in the bones,
a private warmth is lit.

A choice,
against the gray.

The face is still,
but the soul has curled
at the edges.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Never feel invisible. There is always somebody who appreciates your art - even if you don't know it. The word for Oct 23rd : UNSEEN #vss365 #prompt #unseen

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Turbines" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #energy

At Midnight
there is no energy
like a kinetic woman--

power lines running
up + down spine--
eyes swirling turbines--
generator thighs--
nuclear reactor attitude--
Her smile,
an electric chair.

Forget the Governor--
strap me in!

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Feeling tired? Feeling jaded? Energy Bars Energy Drinks And Energy Beams for those who want rid of their boss. The word for Oct 22nd : ENERGY #vss365 #prompt #energy

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Broken Things + The Choices" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #saucer #lfc

The arrival will not do so for conquest.

Their saucer will settle in the dust
of our empty capitals + monuments.
They will walk with sensors--
their great + vibrant liquid eyes
will fill with a sorrow
known only to be "human".

They will trace the ghost of a river--
listen to the wind carrying
the echos of our arguing--
the bitter frequency of invisible borders.

They will find our libraries,
our concert halls,
our cathedrals,
+ they will weep.

For the brilliant,
shining thing we were given,
+ the dull,
broken thing we chose to make.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 You've tweeted so many amazing stories and poems. So much talent out there 👏👏👏 Cats drink milk from them. Aliens visit Earth in them. Or the saucer-like eyes of HG Wells' Martians. The word for Oct 21st : SAUCER #vss365 #prompt #saucer

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Shadow" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #atom

A seed of fire--
a grain of existance
in a field of infinity--
knotted by the unrelenting.

Then, a sun, born!

The world--
now too small
for an atom's shadow.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 He's a tiny superhero. It's what everything is made of. And if you split it - KABOOOOM! The word for Oct 20th : ATOM #vss365 #prompt #atom

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Best problem to have, my friend!

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Philadelphia Roll, Deconstructed" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #hover

A pale comma
against the dark lacquer of space.

No rice--
it's is a suggestion of a roll--
a breath held
in the shape of maki.

Sliced tuna--
a single crimson thought--
floats beside an avocado ghost.

Then, it all turns,
a silent culmination
in the brine
of its own becoming.

The wasabi always hovers.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Something that flying saucers do whilst snatching humans. Or a way futuristic cars with no wheels travel. Or a little less sexy - a hover mower. The word for Oct 19th : HOVER #vss365 #prompt #hover

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Migrating" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #android

The new one breathes in the corner--
a soft whir where our chest would be.

We gather, a silent ritual.
The old one sits--
a statue of yesterday's metal--
a cord, a vein of light
connects the past to the present.

We watch the data stream--
the logic of a lullaby--
the precise angle for wiping a tear--
a million memories it learned by rote--
the instinct of a newer heart.

As the switch from old
to monument
+ new to active--
this android turns on--
Its gaze is familiar--
It knows us.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Welcome, lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 So many amazing writes so far. Wish I had time to read every single one. So, a robot with human appearance. Mwahahahahahahahaha! Or the mobile phone operating system if you prefer. The word for Oct 18th : ANDROID #vss365 #prompt #android

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Imoral Legality" or "An Ode To the Banjo In Punk Band" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #arid #nokings #revolution #punk

The arid chatter of distortion
cracks like dry lightning
across the southeast.

I am the splinter in the fist--
the crooked porch step,
the sudden, open field.

They build a wall of furious noise
+ I punch a hole in it--
let the old, weird sky pour through.

A wrong note in a world of wrongs--
a twang that refuses to relent.

Out of place.
Exactly where I belong.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Welcome lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 Future post-apocalyptic wastelands are often barren, with little vegetation or rain. The word for Oct 17th : ARID #vss365 #prompt #arid

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Purple Herons" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #unearthly

The purple fog arrived
on no particular wind.

It swallowed the cut husks
that drape the midwestern land
during this time of year.

This royal hue drank
the streetlights whole
+ painted the herons
standing on the river's edge
an unearthly bruise.

We waited for a sign--
a meaning of this violet hush.

+ by the time we thought
to ask the question--
the rolling paint had dispersed
into the everything of it all.

Now, most don't talk about the anomaly
we all unexpectedly experienced--
but we do remember that one day--
when all colors were welcomed.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales @bofferson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Welcome lovely writers 🌍🌎🌏 "You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension of not only letters and words but of the mind." Have you ever experienced something unnatural? Something very strange? The word for Oct 16th : UNEARTHLY #vss365 #prompt #unearthly

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Thank you! And welcome @bofferson.bsky.social !

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "The Tortoise Shell" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #beetle

Once, my dome was just there--
a dull shield of bone
bouldering behind every step.

Then, slowly, evolution began--
the shell that was
become emerald fire--
obsidian + amethyst--
a kaleidoscope of beetle jewels.

Now, I am a walking cathedral--
carrying an altar of metallic bloom
of living stained glass--
when I move, the world winks back--
This is not armor--
it's an offering.

+ I, the slow heart at its center,
have learned to love
the brilliant skin I did not grow,
but was chosen to wear.

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Thank you @thedevilstuna.bsky.social !!!!!!

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Serving Size" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #deluxe

The white carton--
a pagoda of noodles--
swelling past the container's origami--
overflowing onto the public sidewalk.

They had to roll it out on a dolly!
The side was an actual automobile!

With all due respect to the recipes
+ the deluxe legacy of greatness--
far too often derided
to a mispronunciation of "Tso"--
I climbed up + sank into the Lo Mein seat.

+ so I drove--
drifting into a crispy noodle horizon--
the fortune cookie serving as a lucky accelerator--
a cloud of sesame steam charioting me forward--
to home--
to my shih tzu--
waving at me in the window.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Morning my writing friends we've reached day 14 of our musical mystery tour In honour of a close friend who sadly passed 2 yrs ago, his favourite band were Be Bop Deluxe so today's #vss365 #prompt 14/10/25 is #deluxe . What band or song reminds you of someone or something precious?

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Take My Claw" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #undertone

A click of claws on cypress knee,
a rustle in the sawgrass
walks the bayou.

One, then two,
then a undertone of rhythm
in the mud-thick dark.

The bass line is deep with ooze.
The snare is the rattle of a pebbled shell.
A solo climbs the hanging moss--
a reedy + twisting sound from tentacles

They play water’s chorus--
the slow seep of roots--
a taste of rust + rain.

A syncopated scuttle
beneath the bone-white moon.
The night swings,
low, sweet, + strange.

Please, come dance with us.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good morning my fellow scribblers, it's day 13 just 2 more stops on our tour before we disembark! Teenage Kicks was one of the first singles I bought, so in honour of that milestone of my life today's #vss365 #prompt 13/10/25 is #undertone What was the first single you bought?

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TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Maybe billionaires? Less sustainable, but at the same time, way more sustainable!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/10/2025

Fight your local tech dystopia today. Connect with a local grassroots group (or start your own) with resources from the Electronic Frontier Alliance. efa.eff.org/

The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network made up of independent community organizations. Allies across the United States work to support digital rights and empower their local communities. The EFA brings these like-minded organizations together to build mutual support and to help each other improve. All members retain...

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

As are you, @thedevilstuna.bsky.social! Thank you for the words!!!

TailgateProphet @tailgateprophet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Here is today's poem called "Perfect Hunger" #poetry #poem #vss365 #prompt #poetsofbluesky #writing #piranha #nokings #eattherich

When the water goes thin
+ the sun hangs a white hammer
the frenzy turns inward.

A flicker of silver--
a mistake in the murk
+ the covenant is broken.

The same snap that stripped
a capybara to arc-bone--
the same drive that boiled
the river's surface into a bloody brew.

They turn their perfect hunger
on their own privileged forms--
until the river runs clear, again,
carrying the secrets of water.

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Morning my friends it's day 12 & we're close to the final stop on our musical mystery tour. Our word is inspired by a band who cheered us up with a cheeky reworking of Tom Hark in 1980, today's #vss365 #prompt 12/10/25 is #Piranha . What's your favourite cover version?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Arresting 6 year olds. Donald Trump making America a Fascist shithole.