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March 6, 2010
By bayleedarling GOLD, Danville, Virginia
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Hello darling,
Could you tell me when the mirror
S H A T T E R E D

?

123456 7 years of bad luck.
When did the ladder


f

n
o

u

l



d above



my head?

I must have missed when the saltshaker t


i





p


p



e



d
over.

That black cat had to have been invisible.
I never saw it coming.

Darling, could you tell me what happened?
There
MUST
be some reason
Why?
I lost you.

© Heather W., No., Brunswick, NJ

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bayleedarling GOLD said...
on Apr. 5 2010 at 11:57 pm
bayleedarling GOLD, Danville, Virginia
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please ignore the spacing on this. it is supposed to be an e.e. cummings type poem, but the format didn't work quite right on teenink. if you're wondering the first group of jumpbled letters is supposed to be "unfold" and the second is "tipped". :]