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stgreenie<p>I've often lamented<br>that I as an older gent<br>can't love<br>or even lust anymore<br>over busty young vixens<br>who sashay my way<br>without being<br>labeled<br>a "dirty old man" perv</p><p>For here I am<br>in the fourth quarter of my life<br>and I still secretly fantasize<br>like all guys do</p><p>Only now the girls<br>are young enough<br>to be my daughter</p><p>EEEWWWW...</p><p>A totally unacceptable<br>violation of calendar rules </p><p>But I just can’t help it<br>that I internally throb<br>like all guys do<br>when presented visually<br>with sweet feminine stimuli<br>but of course if I get busted<br>giving the old side eye<br>to a scantily clad fair maiden<br>I'm labeled<br>attraction inappropriate</p><p>A leering Lolita lusting creep<br>if I do not suppress<br>my desires <br>as stealthily as I can</p><p>Not a healthy situation</p><p>No wonder so many <br>of my repressed generation<br>drop dead<br>of heart attacks<br>trying to hold back<br>the raging hormonal flood<br>breaching the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gossamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gossamer</span></a> stigma dam<br>that is so against<br>our natural masculine urges</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vss365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vss365</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a></p>
KarinWanderer<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SciArtSeptember" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciArtSeptember</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Gossamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gossamer</span></a></p><p>A single spider can make up to 7 different types of ‘silk’, to be used in different ways. The silk used in egg sacs, for example, is different from the silk used to make the spokes on a web, which is different from the silk used to make the web’s spiral.</p><p>(I said the word ‘silk’ so many times it has lost all meaning for me. That's verbal satiation!)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Learning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Watercolor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FiberArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiberArts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Embroidery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Spider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spider</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Silk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silk</span></a></p>
Kevin Russell<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sheril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Sheril</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@rosemarymosco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rosemarymosco</span></a></span> </p><p>It is not global warming, it is climate chaos. </p><p>A system of incredible complexity, self reinforcing balancing complexity, making life possible. </p><p>The universe is blindingly, searingly, hostile to life.</p><p>Only billions of years of increasing complexity allows a gossamer mist of life to cling to this lava ball., cooled by unlikely water.</p><p>Like a childs top, it could fall wildly out of control. <br>We can no longer burn carbon</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatechaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechaos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/balance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>balance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/gossamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gossamer</span></a></p>