Hit me
Kick me
Concuss me
Bludgeon me
Make me feel what I can't
Make me feel what I
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Feet sweep between dark tar and white lines,
the streets reel with soft cries.
Thousands of
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The children here play in sand here
the low tide safe enough for their parents to
let the
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I used to think drowning wouldn't be so bad. But the cold seeps into your bones and roots there. The waves will sleep with you still. Drowning... it creeps up on you. It slips into your city, past the ... [+]
The strength of the ocean lives on inside of me. Tight-laced panels around my waist will never drain the saltwater from my veins, nor will high-heels ever rid me of my sea legs. I refuse to buckle ... [+]
into the garage, no more Buick or Honda, now driving his oldest grandchild and her babies between Wake Forest suburb and student seminary housing. No more museum of decapitated brooms, empty dusty ... [+]
Does an open-pit sit and wonder,
with all the emptiness it contains,
what its existence would
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Might albatross hover to his lover?
If I could answer, my true love is rare,
Curled hai
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Why?
I whispered under my breath, looking at my soulless corpse on the bed. Next to me, my dearest sister stood there in shock, with a pillow in her hands.
The pillow that suffocated
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In the midst of a village, South of Africa
When we all thought we have done our duty as mourners
Digging the grave, because there was no funeral plan
He died a sinner, from spiritual spell
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They cut down Prometheus to
prove that we were trying, acting as
organ donor for ou
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"Personally, I think Voltaire looks like a propped-up flamingo... but a flamingo could probably write better."
A few quiet laughs trickled through the otherwise silent class.
The quip
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Waves lull smoothly forward.
Shadows dance across the skies.
Around a crackling fire, three
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Two minutes before it happened, Maya and I lay in the middle of the hallway while the other six students paced and drank from the water fountain. With our brains jittery after the multiple-choice ... [+]