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Lace and Bad Myths
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York

I speak taboo words With a tongue that knows touch Form the syllables with red-painted lips Lined with the ghosts of kisses past And I hide the stories of long, angry nights...
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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Immature
By ghetto_rod BRONZE
Cottage Grove, Tennessee
ghetto_rod BRONZE, Cottage Grove, Tennessee
1 article 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It is what it is.&quot; -Ms. Fuller

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Iron Waves MAG
By TheArchitect ELITE
Madison, Wisconsin
TheArchitect ELITE, Madison, Wisconsin
227 articles 0 photos 18 comments

Favorite Quote:
-Anything said by Mr. T<br /> - Ill be in my bunk<br /> - Im so clever that half the time I don&#039;t even understand what I&#039;m saying

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Phantoms
By Kiki_McGee GOLD
Woodstock, Illinois
Kiki_McGee GOLD, Woodstock, Illinois
16 articles 16 photos 72 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.&quot; - Emily Dickinson

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"Fury Noise"
By Momo1995 GOLD
East Elmhurst, New York
Momo1995 GOLD, East Elmhurst, New York
15 articles 0 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Through the thick gloom of the present I see the brightness of the future.&quot; -Daniel Webster

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Further and Further
By bassoonkid PLATINUM
Bountiful, Utah
bassoonkid PLATINUM, Bountiful, Utah
20 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Believe in yourself... The major work of the world is done by ordinary people who have learned to work in the extraordinary ways&quot; Gordon B. Hinckley

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Better For Him
By Loftus GOLD
Ocoee, Florida
Loftus GOLD, Ocoee, Florida
11 articles 1 photo 88 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You&#039;re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who&#039;ll decide where you&#039;ll go.&quot; -Dr. Seuss

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I Fell
By Broken_Lover PLATINUM
Theodore, Alabama
Broken_Lover PLATINUM, Theodore, Alabama
22 articles 1 photo 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
No man is worth your tears,and the one who is will never make you cry.

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"The Path I'll Follow"
By stardreamer SILVER
Flemington, New Jersey
stardreamer SILVER, Flemington, New Jersey
5 articles 0 photos 29 comments
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What Kind of Love
By Studio_Riet GOLD
Tonasket, Washington
Studio_Riet GOLD, Tonasket, Washington
16 articles 0 photos 124 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot; Times you see, is a little arrangement that man has made for himself to try to measure the immeasurable mysteries of life.&quot; -Calypso to Ulysses (Bernard Evslin.)<br /> &quot;You don&#039;t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body&quot; - CS Lewis

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