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Thursday June 3rd, 2021

The exercise:

Write about: the instructor.

2 comments:

  1. After the theft of your security blanket, and the confession of the thief, your workplace decided to send you all on a training course, so yesterday the instructor told you all how to make an emergency safety blanket out of packing tape, paper towels and coffee filters? (I really hope I'm right this time!)

    The Instructor
    Sadie instructs people in self-defence;
    Feet like so, knees bent,
    Centre of gravity low;
    Until the movements are instinctive,
    Muscle memory,
    And they have a good position to start from.

    "When they lunge," she says, demonstrating,
    "You turn and slide,
    Step to the side,
    Roll your shoulder and let them go
    Over it."
    She has natural flow.

    Her students learn well but never as well
    As she herself did.
    Sadie can see the future,
    Only three seconds ahead
    But it's the reason she's alive and not dead
    And why everyone pays up on time.

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  2. Greg - well, I mean, clearly you're very close to the truth of the matter.

    Oooh. I like Sadie. And this flows beautifully, by the way.

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