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Fickle Little b***h Romance
That’s the way it is in Minnesota And that’s the way it is in Oklahoma That’s the way it’s been since protozoa First climbed onto the shores of California
Sounds Familiar
We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest.
Shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers,
feathers, blunt knives:
words, to meet and to define and to...
but you must know the same games that we played in dirt,
in dusty school yards has found a higher pitch and broader scale than we feared possible,
and someone must be picked last,
and one must bruise and one must fail.
And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window,
so we eulogized fondly,
we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole,
and rushed out to kill something new,
so we could bury that too.
The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether.
Pushed towards tired forms of self immolation that seemed so original.
I must, we must never stop watching the sky with our hands in our pockets,
stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut.
Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows,
and my voice will scratch to yell many more,
but before I spill the things I mean to hide away,
or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment,
I'll drown the urge for permanence and certainty;
crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement.






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shuichi_fan19
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commentCommented on: Sun Jun 04, 2006 @ 09:19pm
I love this poem, and for some reason is reminds me of this book I read called Surrender. I think this is my favorite poem of your's I've read heart


commentCommented on: Thu Jul 20, 2006 @ 12:08am
News from the Update Kitty: You whore, you must find thy inner (?) light and ******** update.



shuichi_fan19
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Skull-kitti
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commentCommented on: Fri Jul 28, 2006 @ 03:03am
I did you whore!!lol xd


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