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September 15, 2013
By hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
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'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.'
― Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own'

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upstairs, sitting smugly on mahogany,
is a typewriter that's punching in my dreams
and draining my soul like a broken tap;
that “drip-click-drip-click” is tearing
my seams.

the carriage returns;
i crumble.

© Sarah M., Blairsville, PA

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hemingways_daughter DIAMOND said...
on Sep. 19 2013 at 3:40 pm
hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
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Favorite Quote:
'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.'
― Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own'

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thank you thank you you always have the nicest comments :3
Mckay ELITE said...
on Sep. 19 2013 at 11:55 am
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
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It's been so long since I last read one of your work. Forgive me for that. Congrats on the Editors' choice. I love the imagery and emotion in this poem. (I think I say that a lot; but I mean it.) The onomonpia with the "drip-click-drip-click" makes the poem come to life. And the ending is sad and unfortunate...but marverlous, all at once. Well done.