Broken Trust

In Flint, Michigan the water supply has been fixed but the broken trust has not. Nobody's even trying to fix that.  The government acts like it's done its job by firing the people responsible for the problem.  *headdesk*  And then they wonder why mental health there is as bad as physical health.

Saturday Yardening

The Earth Day Celebration was a disappointing bust in terms of entertainment, but I did get some plants from the plant swap and the plant sale.  I put out the ones that were freshly dug instead of grown in a greenhouse: blue muscari, blue iris, blue hyacinth, and two spring beauties. 

Poem: "Something Dark in Me"

This poem is spillover from the March 6, 2018 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from pantha. It also fills the "touch" square in my 2-28-18 card for the Slice-of-Life fest. This poem has been sponsored by Soupshue. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

WARNING: This poem contains topics that some readers may find unsettling. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It contains a kinky relationship between two supervillains, the inside of Shiv's head is a mess, because that is always a warning, begging, simulated electrical play with conductive rope and superpowers, bondage, a lot of vulgar language, Gray pushing Shiv's boundaries a little in terms of talking about what he wants, begging, actual painplay with genuine alligator cilps, Shiv is very noisy and demonstrative when having a good time, intimacy issues, trust issues, simulated knife play with superpowers, Shiv has a terrible self-image, powergasm, hand-feeding, then it all goes horribly wrong because Shiv regresses during the aftercare phase and scares the hell out of Gray by being nonverbal and largely nonresponsive. Also it ends on that cliffhanger, because I ran out of time before I could write the sequel, sorry about that. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before deciding whether this is something you want to read.

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