014 :: Audio

[itsjustafruit]

Good little flower
Bloom for old Uncle Crowley
And you get to live

[ooc: Delivering a haiku-encouragement to his plants. All replies will be haikus.]

Comments

[dignity_misery]

Doesn't water usually do it?

[itsjustafruit]

Water is a sop
Threats are like fertilizer
Just bloom baby, bloom

[dignity_misery]

...flowers don't have ears.

[itsjustafruit]

They're sensitive still
Funny that - they hear me fine
Love my way with words

[dignity_misery]

Love?

[itsjustafruit]

Fear if you prefer
Oh how doth my garden grow?
Honeyed words don't work

[dignity_misery]

Docile flowers or terrified flowers. Which are prettier.

[unflagging]

Did it bloom or do we need to organize a Round-Up firing squad for the execution?

[itsjustafruit]

Nothing so overt
Setting an example works
Fear from its fellows

[unflagging]

Oh, sure. Like the Romans: if no one soldier confesses to a wrongdoing, kill ten of his comrades. If you get lucky, you kill the guilty party. If you don't, well, he's learned his lesson. You're just practicing it on a more elevated level.

Hope it works for you. What kind of plant is it, anyway?

[itsjustafruit]

African violet
Its blooms are lacking in verve
It needs discipline

[unflagging]

I think I had a maiden aunt who grew those. [No, he didn't.] I didn't think their blooms had much "verve" but I'll defer to your expertise.

[itsjustafruit]

Manipulation
A behavior exercise
It passes the time

video;

[mortemscintilla]

Wh-what are you doing?

[ Stop threating flowers
That is plant abuse
Tears flow freely 8( ]

video

[itsjustafruit]

It's called gardening
I am killing with kindness
Perhaps just killing

video

[mortemscintilla]

[ What did the flowers ever do to you? 8( ]

You really think they can understand you?

Re: video

[itsjustafruit]

I know that they can. [The video shifts to show a lush collection of houseplants.]
They understand everything
With some reminders

video

[mortemscintilla]

So they're almost like prisoners.

Re: video

[itsjustafruit]

They're all free to go
I would love to see them try
Running on root feet?

[infernoandhearth]

Only haikus or can you do other poetry?

[itsjustafruit]

Just five seven five
The words rush, a torrented
Syllabic limit

[infernoandhearth]

Ooh, la, you went very poetic, there. For one already speaking in haikus, that is. That's a shame, though. Other forms of poetry are less limiting. I'd kill to see someone trapped in alliterative verse.

[itsjustafruit]

In this City? Wait.
Poetry will target you
Then be creative

[infernoandhearth]

Are you having to come up with them in order to speak at all, or do all your thoughts come out that way?

[itsjustafruit]

They stopper, then sieve
Straining out by syllable
A little of both?