Break your writer’s block, they said. It will be fun, they said.

Dear writers,

today’s prompt of the

day is the. The begins

many an intricate sentence

but has no intrinsic worth

other than as an article

of grammar yet you cannot

write an article without it.

Still, if that’s the case, of could

be the word of today except

for is more appropriate in this

context. Yes. Today’s word for

the day is for. It can also be

thought as fore and four

make eight if heard phonetically,

nonetheless it may have nothing

at all to do with addition

but the past tense of eat—

however, since

there is an absence of food

throughout this exercise

it again highlights the

importance of of,

which looks rather peculiar

when written in succession,

much like The The,

an English rock band formed in ‘79

whose only regular member is

Matt Johnson not John Mattson

in case you get confused and

therefore they should be called I

I, which is likely to be interpreted

as aye-aye if only presented

audibly, said to some

phantom pirate captain

just beyond the stage

with a hook for a hand

and a peg for a leg, a parrot

having fled his shoulder

after getting befuddled with

its mimicry, and tell me

who can blame it

after a fiasco such as this?

And has it never occurred

to you there may be a perfectly

good eye

beneath his patch of black?

Why don’t you write of that instead?

No, not “that”—I mean the

goddamn eye. No one else

has thought of it.

That much I can tell you.

Andreas Gripp

May 1, 2025

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