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May.02.2010
Like the implausible scallop shell he found years ago amidst gunfire (strange are the things one can see when gaping at Doom's face, there is a big lie called epic, he thought, or maybe it was just him), a bleached, sand-sealed scallop shell in a scorching desert, things change dramatically when...
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May.02.2010
"Your pretty face____" they bellowed.. "Your ugly heart is already there." Her lips did not part.. She turned.. She left.. In her room, in her bed, on her side, In her mind, She curled, Wished she was an ant, No ending too tragic, No start.. Longevity means more than 90 years...
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Mar.13.2010
No hope for the day, Out of stock by noon. The bedroom is more dangerous Than a battlefield.. Could not stay, It could be anytime now.. The vortex in the streets again, Where are we going? This treadmill that laughs and laughs.. Hope is coming next month, Call us to check.. Should I hibernate? It's...
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Mar.13.2010
I can be recognized in a crowd by a large circular moonstone pendant I wear all the time. It is the first I could buy from my savings sixteen years ago.. I couldn't wait to buy it, my mother had a moonstone pendant too, and my grandfather had a moonstone ring that looked rather feminine- something...
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Mar.13.2010
Pain.. Such a strange standing men have to pain.. Had I been their creator, I would be confused, Maybe even amused, My reproach so much greater To see pain Driving them the opposite way, To see them suffer In vain.. Life to man is to hold a red hot iron bar, And to say, "I have to, this is...
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Mar.13.2010
They say the sky is too far, And the earth is right beneath our feet. Then I must be a star Sent to live on earth, or an earthworm Marooned on Jupiter, Or a species, extinct and obsolete, Or a spirit with a forgotten memory In human form, For I converse with the moon, My sky corones my head, And...
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Mar.13.2010
The clouds assembling, Uncertain, hesitating... The air charged with tension, My eyes are restless, Watching the scene in anticipation.. The negotiations pulsating through the particles And into me... I spring to my feet in agitation And start to pace.. I feel like a cloud, Like a jurist, And one...
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Jan.16.2010
She sat, silently listening to her friend's voice narrating an incident that happened a week ago, vaguely gazing at her eyes, sometimes on her lips, sometimes jumping to a body part that jerked this way or that as she got illustrative in her narration. The series of stories started about three...
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Jan.16.2010
You call me a beautiful name,And all the beautiful things in meHover around your lips as you utter itLike butterflies around a divine flower.
Call me a beautiful name,So I can make it ever so realAnd passionately work to deserve it,And come to you to say it every hour.
If the world can learn from...
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Jan.16.2010
I never really asked anything of life, I am not the demanding type.. I naturally grew up to find people calling me good things..Not all people..Aunts, school teachers, neighbours.. Others didn't bother much to call me into their attenion, and I didn't bother either... It seemed that the way I acted...
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Jan.16.2010
A butterfly kissed my heart,Don't blame me, then,When I spread my wings in the Sun.Like a pregnant woman,Don't blame herFor her self-surpassing loveOf her son,Though he is yet unpresentTo your eyes.Don't tell her to love herself more,For in the core of her soulThere is a precious pearlForming...
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Dec.03.2009
In a heart that beats morning melodies,In sighs that stroke the harp of night,In veins through which runs etherical lightAnd eyes that shine non-ending rhapsodies,I exist..Silence the chanting birds and murder the trees,Oh Man of Civilization, what delight!Only your iron birds shall take flightThe...
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Dec.03.2009
I had dreamed that my watch read 30:30, and I was anxiously thinking "I shouldn't be here at that time.. I muddled up my life's time, I am missing somwhere else, in another time, and I came here" A great mess, while the numbers shone 30: 30, not p.m., not a.m., just the numbers, and me...
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Nov.04.2009
I stand stillA bird upon the window sillI try to passThrough this mysterious thing called glassI feel painI will go insaneHow come I see the skyThe geraniums and the butterflyThe child running along the breezeAnd the merry treesYet I cannot get out of this morbid roomWhere definite is my doomI keep...
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Oct.22.2009
Be fair, he cried, be fair!Maybe you are right, dear sir,I live in perfection, to their eyes,But I can't live my days in lies..It's the matter of the hours, the little minutes,I curb my heart, I am chained with limits..I only ask for a fresh, wild garden,With merry plants that carry no burden..A...
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