When I heard the prompt this time, my first thought was "a kept woman." I suppose a kept woman can also keep a contract. But what happens if she breaks it? What happens if she is beholden only to herself? She may be poor. She won't be lonely.
Contracts to me are fluid, because what really holds them together? Words, like Angie [writing group participant] said. Words can be stricken, erased. If I don't care about the punishment, why would I care about a contract?
Construction outside is distracting me. Funny how city contracts for road work almost always take longer than agreed upon -- "The freeway will be open again in a week!" Yeah, right.
It's hard for me to write about contracts that are kept because contracts always end at some point. The Earth's contract is about to expire. Mother Nature is sick and tired of all this god-damned construction noise.
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