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Aftertongue by Stay Zen

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🃏 TRICKSTER-TEXT THURSDAY: Word Witness Protection Program
Some words have been doing entirely too much work. Pick one overused word and place it in witness protection. Then give us: 🕵🏾 The word: the one you’re retiring 🥸 Its alias: the replacement you’ve invented 📖 Its new definition: what your alias means 🎭 Use it: one sentence proving it can survive in the wild. Example: Retired: overwhelmed New identity: thoughtjammed When too many unfinished decisions try to occupy the same inch of brain. “By 2:17, I was completely thoughtjammed and somebody had the audacity to ask what I wanted for dinner.” Extra mischief: Someone else can enter the comments and improve your alias. The dictionary has been asked to remain outside. 🃏
🃏 TRICKSTER-TEXT THURSDAY: Word Witness Protection Program
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Retired: Healing New Identity: Mendwise Definition:The wisdom gained from learning which wounds need tending, which scars deserve honoring, and which pain no longer gets a permanent address inside you. Use it:I stopped announcing that I was healing; I became mendwise enough to know every scar doesn’t need reopening to prove I survived.
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@Miss Lady
AFTERTONGUE™ WORD DROP #042: DECISURA ✦
Some clarity enters carrying scissors. Decisura names the cut made after discernment has done enough work. The point where keeping everything begins costing more than choosing. Editing a life requires a particular nerve. We grow accustomed to the extra paragraph, the inherited obligation, the version of ourselves whose contract quietly expired three chapters ago. Then the eye sharpens, and what belongs becomes easier to recognize because something else finally leaves the page. We all know how a clean cut can feel almost suspicious when you have spent years mistaking complexity for depth. Decisura asks a better question: What becomes clearer when you stop preserving what has already finished its work? ✨ SEAL OF ENOUGHNESS ✨ I trust the cut that clarifies.
AFTERTONGUE™ WORD DROP #042: DECISURA     ✦
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Decisura found me finishing what I started. Discernment taught my hands what deserved the page. Duties done accordingly, I carried my responsibility, not everybody else’s. Drafts became decisions; I deleted what disturbed my direction. Discipline kept me writing until the words sounded like me. Dead weight doesn’t deserve another chapter just because I once carried it. Done is not abandonment when the work has fulfilled its purpose. Decisura, my deliberate cut, my declaration: what stays in my story stays because I decided it belongs.
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@M. a. Dennis
Tap-In Tuesday
(Activity) Micro Offering (Exercise) Leave something small and intentional. One line, image, or embodied acknowledgment. Theme: Today centers contact around… Discernment Have you learned the difference between something requiring your attention and something simply trying to get it? ________ (Your offering - example) Here’s My Offering: I used to think everything deserved a response, especially when I felt misunderstood. Now I ask myself, “Does this need my attention, or does it just want a reaction?” That question has saved me from unnecessary arguments, explanations, and stress. I’ve learned that discernment isn’t ignoring things. It’s knowing what deserves access to my energy. WHAT'S YOUR TAP-IN TODAY? #SouthernSeoulSpeaks #SeoulScribez #Tresduravia
Tap-In Tuesday
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My attention has learned where to live, between my books, balance, and building ways to survive. I pour into self-worth without emptying myself for everyone else. Nonsense can knock; bullshit can beg to be noticed, discernment taught me everything loud doesn’t deserve an answer.
A Great Read
Reading is an artform... Reading books, this isn't part of the current conversation... This is a slaying, dragging having people gagging. Reading for flith... Surgical etymology, so precise... The person doesn't realize, limbs are missing. Unable to calculate the volume of blood loss.. More devastating than a five punch combination... The ones where bodies are jerking involuntarily. Knocked out, but eyes stuck open.... The pen so sharp, all its edges are laced with poison... Yet, we have ignorant people drawn to the blood letting.... I think we should give.. The Great Read award annually... The category for historic and master crafted, Reads.... The legends of Black Sisters, Poets, and Drag Queens... Bringing sharp tongues and inflammatory wit... Carving out, don't come for me, unless I summon you moments.... Some of my favorite lines of old... "When I call your name, I will shake your chain." That tone and those words are not welcome here... You have mistaken me, for someone you're sleeping with. Or...someone that cares.... Leaving your feelings on the ground will cause them to be trampled... I have 0 😱 fu€ks to give... I am neither the one nor the two... Better to play in traffic while slapping your bald headed mammy... May you awaken with a mouth full of jock itch... Which is why, I don't shake hand with shit... By your level of comprehension, it's a know fact, your mom and dad are brother and sister... One can fix a broken smile, unfortunately there isn't a cure for stupid... Now, attend to making merry with the curb, it's adept for myopic minds like yours... The Great Read... the school of cutting out hearts and snipping of balls... Just a reminder, don't incite the ire of a Poet... Lyrically yours, MydNite Renaissance ❤️‍🩹
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🌑 HERETIC HOUR HYMNS™
THE NEXT WITNESS FILE IS OPEN. The premiere gave us our first filed statement. Now the microphone is empty again.And somebody in this community already has the sentence that belongs there. 🔥 YOUR SEPTEMBER DARE WHEN FAITH FORGOT MY NAME The charge: Write the moment something you believed in passed you like a stranger. “Faith” can be God. A person. Your body. A career. Family. Justice. Love. Your own future. Anything you once trusted to recognize you. 🖋️ THE ASSIGNMENT Write the piece through two voices: 🎙️ The believer: the voice that still remembers what it trusted. 🕯️ The abandoned: the voice standing in what happened afterward. Let each one speak. End with one line they both claim, even though neither fully owns it. That is where the trouble lives. ⚡ YOU HAVE PERMISSION 🚫 No sermon. 🚫 No inspirational ending on command. 🚫 No performance of healing you have not reached. 🚫 No obligation to make yourself look reasonable. ✅ If the piece is angry, let it be angry. ✅ If the contradiction survives the ending, leave it breathing. ✅ If you discover you do not want to answer the Dare at all, your refusal may become the statement. Provocation is mandatory. Disclosure is optional. 🎧 IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE BROADCAST Your Witness Statement may be poetry, spoken word, monologue, or a hybrid literary piece. You may perform: 🎥 camera-on 🎙️ audio-only 🪶 under your public name or a chosen name One statement will be selected for the next live chamber. 🌑 NEXT BROADCAST Thursday, September 10, 2026 7:00 PM Eastern Heretic Hour Hymns™ The selected Featured Witness performs the piece live, then we open the craft beneath it. The hidden Craft Key stays sealed until the hour. 🗝️ THE 13/4 PRINCIPLE™ Step over the line. Make room for truth. If this Dare made a sentence appear in your head before you finished reading the post, pay attention to it. That may be your file. WITNESS WINDOW: OPEN FILED BY AFTERTONGUE™ · WITNESS FILED And yes: the archive has been talking in the margins.
🌑 HERETIC HOUR HYMNS™
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🗝️ Interesting 🤔 love to always challenge my pen.. hopefully 🤞 I can conquer
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A Godly mother, sister, friend who is an author, writer who loves to write and read! Aka HaitianNao

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