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Griefs

free words mash up #3

Ann Marie Steele
2 min readOct 4, 2020
Photo by Patrick Kool on Unsplash

Reastracted (n)

Distracted reading. Because I was reastracted, when I got to the end of the City Engineering Department’s traffic study report, I found myself thinking about writing poetry.

Priots (n)

Protests and riots. Need I say more.

Swiver (v)

To shiver right after sweating; synonym — Coldflash- When I walk into overly air conditioned restaurants after sweating I begin to swiver in my damp tank top.

Screough (v)

To scream and cough simultaneously (v)- I got so angry at my students because they were ignoring my direction that I screoughed at them.

Squart (v)

Squeak and fart sound-not really a fart, but the noise caused by wet skin friction that squeaks. Please, not what you think! During yoga class I get so sweaty that sometimes in chair pose twist my underarms squart. *I live in Florida and sweat a lot!

Griefs (n)

Back up briefs or panties stashed in the glove box of a car for those emergency purposes in case of an incident called a Faress. breaking wind and a mess as described James G Brennan in his article Agioid found here:

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Ann Marie Steele
Ann Marie Steele

Written by Ann Marie Steele

I write about love and loss, what I observe and experience — I write about hope. My writing has been described as resiliently defiant.

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