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PinkThe way my mother tells this story, it’s with a smirk in the right corner of her mouth, her eyes dancing all the way to the punch line. I have vague, fuzzy memories that are probably more due to imaginative reconstruction and not any actual miracle recoveries. But it’s a good story, whether or not the memory is my own.Pink
When I was little, my mother would take me to the Toy’s R Us on the corner of Geary and Masonic. I’d browse the aisles happily with her following behind, occasionally playing with me, but mostly letting me explore. I adored everything – the plastic perfection that was Barbie, the over-infl
by ~RhapsodyinAlto
We all fall downTonight, I am consumed:We all fall down
words spinning through veins,
blocking the oxygen to my brain
until I am asphyxiated
by consonants and connotations,
vowels a malignant tangle
like the rush of water,
the scream of sudden silence
that comes after –
Tonight, I am constructed:
a mere reflection that glimmers
once across your pupils
before soaking into your retinas. A paint-by-number set
you memorized years ago
and lies buried beneath
half-finished projects on your coffee table.
Tonight, I am smothered casual
by ~RhapsodyinAlto
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Allusive PoemsI carve poems from semicolons like Michelangelo or a madman hermit whittler— “Whittle me this, Madman!” I’d say to the passing crowds.Allusive Poems
“I am Tristan and you are Guinevere!” Or wait— No, “I am Lancelot and you are Isolde! And—“ No… I guess I’m not sure what we are.
I allude to you, You allude to me, We could be Eliot With all of the allusions we make.
I’d love to sit at the round table, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t be sure what to do without a head. &n
by *Lamarcus
Togetherby ~JalehMinau
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"You do drink, don't you?"
"I did just say I was a writer."
- 1408
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. -Carl Jung-
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"i dare say you haven't had much practice.
when i was your age, i always did it for half an hour a day.
why, sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
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"For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true... One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?" --Tom Stoppard
you're too kind (:
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"i dare say you haven't had much practice.
when i was your age, i always did it for half an hour a day.
why, sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
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so there it lies, the whole mistake.
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"You do drink, don't you?"
"I did just say I was a writer."
- 1408
I definately need to watch you
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Why,
sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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