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  For the Broken-Hearted

  

  By amyscarlett, Santa Monica, CA

  I hope That you move away from here, Meet a nice girl Who seems sincere, I hope When you take her out to dinner that you hold her hand, And you kiss her softly On the sand And I hope That you start to forget my name And when you lie together She tells you that she feels the same Ch...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  On Life Not Having a Pause Button

  

  By amyscarlett, Santa Monica, CA

  She likes a boy And her grandfather's in a hospital Some six thousand miles away, Surviving every day but Slowly losing his smile. She likes a boy And her grandfather has thirty-six Tumors on his spine, Two in his pancreas And says he feels fine but He's refusing to eat. She likes a bo...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Happiness

  

  By amyscarlett, Santa Monica, CA

  When Andrew smiles his lips curl upwards, not outwards but upwards so that his front teeth are bared, stained yellow from all the coffee and cigarettes he tried to quit. His eyes remain dull and despite being a piercing shade of blue-green, the Pacific ocean pictured in travel magazines, they are ug...