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Aftertongue by Stay Zen

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Before the First Dose™ is tonight
Bring me the question you stopped asking. Register at: www.events.stayzenverse.com Maybe: ❌ the insurance company said no. ❌ a prior authorization expired. ❌ you had access and lost it. 💙 or you know someone it applies to. Maybe the process simply became one task too many. Drop one question below that you want us to put on the table tonight. You can keep it broad. You do not need to post private medical details. And if your question depends on where you live, add your state so we can catch location-specific differences when they matter. 📍 Country Check™: US 🧠 Room: Care + Capacity™ #Before the First Dose™ #Appetite Static™ #Member Signal #Country Check™ #Care + Capacity™ #US Tonight’s goal: leave with fewer loose ends and a clearer next move.
Before the First Dose™ is tonight
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I hate I missed this. I had too much going on.
MoodMark Monday
(Activity) Inner Weather Check (Exercise) Name your current internal climate using weather language. One phrase or term only. No explanation. __________ Here’s My Offering (Example): Today’s Forecast: Cool air settling in with emotional distance holding steady, clear enough to observe the storm without stepping back into it. #SouthernSeoulSpeaks #Tresduravia #SeoulScribez
MoodMark Monday
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Flooding…sorrow beyond the wreckage.
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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Well! 🫰🏽🫰🏽🫰🏽🫰🏽
🌑 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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My whole life is inspirational. Even though my home is destroyed by flood. God typically has some good in mind. I’m angry, hurt and confused knowing I don’t feel I should be responsible. The plumbing had parts that crumbled. No one assisted to turn off the water and it flooded for over an hour. The insurance decides whether they will cover so it’s up in the air. And in the meantime, I have to cover with a credit card my motel stay. If they decide not to, I’m liable for so much and considering what’s going on in this country, I’m not confident at this very moment about the situation.
WEEKLY ROLL CALL 8/9/26 - 8/15/26
✨This past week y’all continued to pour out your hearts and share your stories with us. Thank you.✨ Our TOP ✨This past week y’all continued to pour out your hearts and share your stories with us. Thank you.✨ Our TOP Three ⭐️: @Naomie Thomas @Ericka Floyd @Laron Henderson Honorable Mentions ✨: @Michelle Cox @M. a. Dennis @Craven Smith @Tiera Porter-House @Mick Collins @Tierrah Nicole @The Pretty Provocative Poet
WEEKLY ROLL CALL 8/9/26 - 8/15/26
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Ericka Floyd
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B’klyn NY born. Began writing poetry regularly after pandemic. Appears in multiple anthologies and 1recent publication. Mbr of Tesoro, A.R.T. & AAWA.

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