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  Broken Creator

  

  By velvet-and-terror, San Diego, CA

  You have found yourself perched on rooftops and dunes admiring the subtleties of your supposed creation the way hills give way to plains cities to sprawl order to chaos You wonder why you are broken when it is you who can heal all you wonder how you lost sight of everything that has eve...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  Shopping in Secondhand Stores

  

  By velvet-and-terror, San Diego, CA

  It has become clear over the last few years that our economy is in bad shape, and that its effects reach past Wall Street, directly to the American people. Across the country, people are devising ways to cut back on spending. Some who previously lived comfortably are struggling to make it to the end...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Last Fight

  

  By velvet-and-terror, San Diego, CA

  We're gently breaking down each-other Yes gently wearing down the other Standing face to face, we deliver Blow by blow our bases shiver Crumbling till nothing's there Just broken pieces everywhere Too weak to pull ourselves back together Too weak to even withstand the weather So we...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Sundays

  

  By velvet-and-terror, San Diego, CA

  Where I am supposed to be is Where they want me But I don't want me there I will worship the gods Of surf wax and sunburn Pray on the Bible of my 9-foot Pacific style And burn candles for a decent set. Blue skies and ocean Preach nothing more than Clarity, peace They know I can&#...
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  Choking on the Truth

  

  By velvet-and-terror, San Diego, CA

  Fresh cut lawns And broken glasses Nameless pawns Who feed the masses A mask A front A traceless deed The quiet rules You have to heed Flowerboxes And bad behavior Searching for Our nameless savior To much To soon To close to call You're so high up You have to fall Baby dolls ...