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Biting of the lip
Flicking of a lighter
Foot tapping and leg twitching
Hot sauce on shredded wheat
Let the quirks fly
A character without a quirk
Forged of cardboard
A statue in the scene
Lost among the humans
With a tic to call their own
Every reader has one
Unique and partially known
Yet noticed
When seen upon the page
Declaring that they do that too
Addicted to a word
Clumsy feet and social awkwardness
An endless world of quirks
That all of us are members
Which ones do you possess?
Legends of Windemere 
Excellent write Charles. I love this. Aren’t we all addicted to words?
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Thanks. Readers and writers definitely have that addiction in common. Though, I think in this case, I meant characters who have that signature word or phrase that they always say.
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Oh, I understood. It makes characters more life like. Good write.
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Got it. I admit that I tend to forget the word repetition.
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The picture made me laugh out loud. That wasn’t the best part, though. I enjoyed how this flowed almost as if it was a stream of consciousness. Beautiful.
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Thanks. It is a stream of consciousness poem. To be fair, most of my poetry falls into that category.
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Good stuff. 🙂
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Great poem! This especially grabbed me:
“A character without a quirk
Forged of cardboard
A statue in the scene”
So true!
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Thanks. Actually, got that from something I did in the Bedlam sequel.
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I really don’t get poetry, but there are some good lines here about cardboard characters. I’ve even used a catchphrase to set someone apart when I had a bunch of characters involved.
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I use physical tics and habits to help. Poetry definitely has more of an understanding challenge than prose. Probably because we’re so used to looking further into it than a story. At least analysis was the major part of poetry when I was in school.
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Makes sense. I didn’t even like it in school. I have a few favorite pieces, but they’re old and even they tell a story.
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You’d be surprised how often I run into people who say that. Not even sure it gets touched on in school any more.
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Probably true. School has changed so much now.
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