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• Poetry > Free Verse
  Working (for love)

  

  By LadyLazarus22, New York, NY

  She tries. She cracks the right jokes She pours him his favorite wine She hangs onto every word But, all she receives are His casual replies, eyes at the watch Back up to his study, safe. She cries....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Missing

  

  By LadyLazarus22, New York, NY

  All you left was your checkered blue shirt, lifeless in my arms, a small death. I bury it in a grave of other clothes, hoping it finds peace beneath the pink plaid. If only my heart was that easy to bury. As for now it lies sadly on my chest of drawers, -folded each day, one size fits one- ho...
• Poetry > Ballad
  The Flaws of Facebook

  

  By LadyLazarus22, New York, NY

  Listen to this messed up story that I will tell you now of a young girl named Tory and how she turned into a cow. Facebook.com was Tory’s life She spent each day obsessing And how it brought her awful strife, I am at last professing. I’ve kept this tale quiet for long But now it’s...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Grandmother Bettina B.

  

  By LadyLazarus22, New York, NY

  When I was young, I watched cartoons and movies where squiggly lines were words. ­Obviously, it was just a representation of writing, but I believed in it. I wrote pages upon pages of little etched lines, thinking I was a genius. I thought words were easy. For a brief while, I thought I was the Kea...