prompt: fact+emotion

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Take a google lookie for animal facts (or any fact) and then pick an emotion (so many) and then start to push them together somehow. Like you could use some of these random combos:

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards/Regret

Otters “hold hands” while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other

Starfish do not have a brain/Love

Koalas can sleep for up to 22 hours a day/joy

Only female mosquitoes bite/trust

The shortest living animal in the world is the Mayfly.
Its entire adult lifespan is just 24hrs/sadness

The only mammal capable of flight is the bat/fear

a blue whale has a tongue that can weigh more than 4000 lbs./Wistful or Pensive

I ask you to pour me champagne in a teacup and bring it to me. We sit on the back stoop and watch the last of the sun drip down like sticky golden honey and later you remind me that everything is going to be ok and also that you just learned that a blue whale has a tongue that can weigh more than 4000 lbs. It’s wild to think about the way things are in the world. How there are things you can calculate and verify and know. And then there are other things that you just feel. And other things we don’t really have the capacity for understanding. Like how the tongue feels in the mouth. We just notice it there sometimes. We notice it French kissing. Or if we bite it or when we push it against our teeth. The roof of the mouth. We are kind of floating through all this. I forget I have kneecaps sometimes. That I am not heard when I yell or cry about heavy hearts. But 4000 lbs. Wow. But it ain’t heavy to a blue whale I bet. 
It ain’t heavy.

-ATS 

ilysm
This an oldie but one I love. xo