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Backwards Thinking is the Gateway Drug

to Backwards Actions

By Jada FergusonPublished 4 months ago • 1 min read
Runner-Up in Out of Order Challenge

Become president of a country

Then maybe figure out how the government works

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Wipe your ass

Then shit and put on your pants

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Celebrate 250 years of a country's existence

Whilst you denounce how and who built said country

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Put your shoes on

Then your socks

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Be devastated by mass shootings

Then make sure to endorse guns over lives

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Cook a chicken

Then clean it

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Force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term

Then strip away the resources needed to care for the child

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Do your nails

Then wash the dishes with no gloves

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Make affordable housing a trope in a fantasy novel

Then be left aghast by homelessness

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Stock a refrigerator with perishable items

Then unplug it

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Discontinue conservation efforts

And just bring back extinct species

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Take the clean sheets off your bed

Then lay down and go to sleep

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Cut down and burn every tree

Then take deep breaths

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Close your eyes

And look at the sunset

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Give artificial intelligence the 6 infinity stones

Then wait for the snap

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About the Creator

Jada Ferguson

A poet/writer whose ideas/concepts usually come at the most inopportune times. The pull to bring my vision to fruition can be felt in every piece. Really trying my best to be my best.

Creator of #StoopHaikus (soon to be a phenomenon)

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    Written by Jada Ferguson