Day 153

Today's words:

Monkey
Bullet
Ravioli
Knife
Trophy
Runway

"Laugh all you want, but that monkey
"Would take a bullet
"For you." "What crap," she thought, cutting the ravioli
With a knife.
"This is no trophy-
"Winning dialogue to be sure. Best stick to runway

"Modelling. At least on the runway
"I won't have a monkey
"As a sidekick. I'll surely not get a best actress trophy
"For a line like that - 'take a bullet'
"My arse." She plunged her knife
Into the ravioli.

Eating ravioli
Wasn't good for her runway
Model's figure, she knew, but used her knife
On the pasta anyway. Better than worrying about a monkey
With a bullet.
She looked towards her trophy

Case. There was a trophy
Her mother had won for best ravioli.
But she'd fled that world like a bullet
From a gun, towards the runway.
She didn't want to wind up a performing monkey
Or a knife-

Wielding assassin, although her knife-
Throwing skills had won her another trophy
Once. "Screw them all," she thought, "Screw the monkey,
"The ravioli,
"The runway,
"And the bullet."

Which would you choose, a bullet
Or a knife?
Strolling down the runway,
Trophy
In hand, she wanted her mother's ravioli.
So, yeah, she'd take the part with the monkey

Taking a bullet. Maybe it wouldn't earn her a trophy
But she could still use her knife on the ravioli.
Goodbye, runway; hello, monkey.