Imitation is the best form of flattery

I like to have fun with my writing. Creeping, encroaching, crawling, twisting words and phrases to 'turn the screw', so to speak, on the everyday and mundane.

I admit that I do get inspiration from within other people's ideas and thoughts, as others may also get from mine.

But when it gets completely ridiculous, is when I draw the line.

An example if you will indulge me:

I wrote my lovely little Haiku "When pigs fly".

Now changed to "See pink pigs fly".

For lo and behold, I suddenly see someone making every other animal fly too.

And not just one, suddenly a whole barrage of lizards, bats , lions, apes, cats, dogs, rats and what not, started flying too.

With a title just like my own.

Becoming completely annoyed, I immediately unsubscribed from the person. Now, I am not trying to be mean...I am just asking that you not so blatantly take my idea, without at least finding your own title.

I felt encroached upon, having now being forced to change my own cover title, through no fault of my own.

Sorry, to say. I did not feel at all flattered.

There is beautiful imitation...then there is encroachment.

For life imitates art, and art imitates life...but only in the best of ways.