Gunslinger

[Erthona]

Actually the psychological nuances as well as the historical context could be quite enlightening. I have often pondered the psychological implications of "ring around the rosy" as it is a description of death from the black plague. The sores were called rosies, one carried flowers to cover the stench of the disease, and of course "we all fall down" meant they died. There are actually few classic nursery rhymes that are completely benign. I think psychologically they fall along the same axis as that of team sports being reflections of and preparations for war, especially those primarily played by males originally. It could be fun, but it would be very research intensive.

"because i can't write. or at least i can't get back into the thing i started"

That's probably due to you originally using an unauthentic (stylistic) voice you picked up somewhere and cannot now recreate (although it could also just be a matter of lost inspiration). If you could determine where it came from, you could probably go back and read it and get started again. That happened to me once where I had gotten into a Douglas Adams mode. I decided it wasn't worth it to me to do the work to get re-started. In poetry my voice has been authentic for a long time, but prose is still a bit iffy, unless I am speaking in first person personal of myself, and who wants to listen to that?

Dale