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Robyn MacKinnon·February 9, 2025

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The Challenge

written by: Robyn MacKinnon

@art_rat

the challenge started

Taylor Swift tour, but for goths

craving violence

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

Illustration description: A red spotlight. The words of the haiku arch overhead in black Caflisch Script Pro Bold font. Below, a ragged, fragmented figure with long, blonde hair. She wears a long, black dress with flowing sleeves, and her lips are the same blood red as the spotlight. The ragged shapes in each hand suggest a gleaming dagger on the left and a microphone on the right. The space outside the spotlight is black.

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I am mostly a visual artist, but I like to create "found poetry", specifically daily haiku made from the statuses of my Facebook friends. It was my Mom who started this, and officially passed the responsibility onto me when she became too busy.

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