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  Signed With Love, Sealed With Wax

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  And he pulled it out of a book And he wrote "Dear Dearest" on the page. All too hot here stood the sordid trampled-on and love-forsaken man, Saw a cord and pulled upon it Hoping that he could prolong it By writing "Dear Dearest" on the page. Alone, alas, the room so warm ...
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  "Sick"

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  "Sick," I whispered, crying as it fell. Depravéd demons, never meaning well, Fading backwards into shattered pasts; I want for lack of having, since having never lasts. "Sick" I trembled, not wise enough to grow; The day too young for wonder, the earth too old to know. ...
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  Relativity

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  Sophistication. Words breed confusion, Falling on the water like ink on paper; Breed frustration Breed and culture and develop general negativity. A theory of general negativity like the earth orbits the sun Like gravity Like cynicism. Words breed meaning and meaning develops debate. Debate...
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  Structure

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  It's a lot like silk, really. Or the feeling you get when you leave the bathroom light on. It's getting left behind, but not forgotten. Being badmouthed, but respected. It's jumbled up contradictions, but in the form of an emotion. It's lovely, really. Every once in awh...
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  Emily

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  Emily, oh Emily. A lovely girl, she. Eyes like roses: her thorny stare Looking through me like I wasn't there. Sexy, legs like Satan's satin, Emily, oh sexy she. I never knew an Emily. Never yet, but someday may, And when I look on her I'll say "I thought of you in...
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  Momentous

  

  By Rubix, Eugene, OR

  I saw a star walking home tonight. I mean, while I was walking home. Not the star. It was quite bright, and it twinkled strangely. I got the feeling it was looking into me, Like it knew something I could only want to know. It was cold out, but I unzipped my jacket anyway. The star made the ext...