Content for the Zine
So I've been thinking about what to put into my zine and decided to write my own piece with as many 'B words' as possible. I wanted to try and tell a story of how B is always coming in second place, so close to being the first. He tries really really hard but gets disappointed/angry/frustrated, and in the end, comes to terms with his role as the second place in the alphabet.
After a whole lot of looking through the thesaurus and idiom-searching, here's what I came up with.
To B, Or Not To B
Behold, B.
Bare. Basic. Beautiful.
But barely bagging second-best.
Born beta. ‘Plan B’. Basically, in the backseat.
Bah, what a bummer.
Beaten, blue, B brooded behind the background.
Brick by brick, building up blocks back to back.
“Be bigger. Be braver. Be bolder.”
“Be brilliant. Be better. Be best.”
But brainwashing backlashed.
Brimming bitterly, B bristled, boiled, bawled.
“Boring! Brainless! Bad! Broken!”
A beast beyond benevolence, bursting berserk behind borders in his brain.
Bouncing ballistically, back to the bottom below.
Breathless, burnt out. B was beat.
Bothered by B’s behaviour, B’s bashful baby brother burst in.
“B! I beseech you, behave. Let bygones be bygones.”
“Being B is not a burden or on the back foot because we be blessed by balance.
Now, bring back some backbone.”
Bingo! Bolstered by his brother’s bluntness, B’s brain began from breakdown to breakthrough.
Brushing it off, B began to believe he belonged.
Looking at it, I felt that maybe I might have tried too hard to force-fit some words in there. But since this is a uni project, there's no better time to experiment, right? To be honest, I like every part except for the ending because I feel that it's too abrupt. But I'm running out of time so I can't be as pedantic as I'd like.
REFERENCES:
https://chi-nese.com/list-of-positive-words-that-start-with-b/
https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/word-lists/positive-words-that-start-with-b.html
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