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The Pink Ribbon

THE PINK RIBBON I’m here in a hospital , ignoring the pain they are starting my chemo, sticking my vein. For a while I’ll get sicker, it hardly seems fair, I’ll end up a lot thinner while losing my hair. I’m beating this disease thats hiding inside I’m going to live where others have died. [...]

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bomber girl

faceless shadow shroud of virginity only you know who you are and your hidden dream secret cartwheel upside down skin making love to the wind demure bride of war kissing the rug of prayer, wallering in the ghost of charlemagne exalted in your father’s army adorned corset of nails your heart beats your body ticks [...]

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All this and Heaven too

God made the World in just six days, And took one off to rest. He blessed it with some solar rays, To warm the first bird’s nest. God chose to give the world He made To man, made from the grounds; With just one rule: Don’t eat that fruit From one tree out of bounds. [...]

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He Put His Arm Around Her

He put his arms around her- It made the poor girl sick; Was is true? what her Pa said? That “he was a-damn-poor-stick?” HE PUT HIS ARMS AROUND HER; She was far away from HOME- She told him “I NEARLY FROZE TO DEATH!” In……my little bed… alone. He put his arms around her- But that [...]

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She pulled herself out of the water

She pulled herself out of the water, nails digging into the soggy riverbank, choking on weeds and coughing up the muck from the riverbed. She lay still for a while, long wet tendrils of her dark hair straggling across her face, her fingers embedded into the moss and leaves beneath her. Her jeans, heavy with [...]

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