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Sepia
By lookingformargo SILVER
Ithaca, New York

We sat in a brightly lit kitchen Reenacting old arguments Like Shakespearean works Old with an immediacy we can't seem to shake We'd forgotten the lines we wrote...
lookingformargo SILVER, Ithaca, New York
8 articles 0 photos 2 comments

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A child said, &quot;What is the grass?&quot; fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven... and now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass<br /> <br /> <br /> We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and falling. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. -Looking For Alaska<br /> <br /> Here&#039;s what&#039;s not beautiful about it: from here, you can&#039;t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It&#039;s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It&#039;s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I&#039;ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> It is so hard to leave&mdash;until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -Paper Towns<br /> <br /> Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.<br /> The light falls without letup, blindingly. - A Life, Sylvia Plath

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We of All
By Anonymous
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Stressed Out
By Anonymous
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Through Thick and Thin.
By Anonymous
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Mirror
By mcoughs2468 PLATINUM
Natick, Massachusetts
mcoughs2468 PLATINUM, Natick, Massachusetts
34 articles 21 photos 1 comment

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The whole wide world has gone crazy, so baby why don&#039;t we just dance?

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Mi Amor
By Ashanti GOLD
Melbourne, Florida
Ashanti GOLD, Melbourne, Florida
17 articles 0 photos 0 comments

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I love being me

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What Kind of Love
By Studio_Riet GOLD
Tonasket, Washington
Studio_Riet GOLD, Tonasket, Washington
16 articles 0 photos 124 comments

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&quot; Times you see, is a little arrangement that man has made for himself to try to measure the immeasurable mysteries of life.&quot; -Calypso to Ulysses (Bernard Evslin.)<br /> &quot;You don&#039;t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body&quot; - CS Lewis

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The Voices vs. Me
By Ashanti GOLD
Melbourne, Florida
Ashanti GOLD, Melbourne, Florida
17 articles 0 photos 0 comments

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I love being me

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A Football Dream
By tcarr15 BRONZE
Newark, New Jersey
tcarr15 BRONZE, Newark, New Jersey
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Just Death
By Versusfire BRONZE
Craig, Colorado
Versusfire BRONZE, Craig, Colorado
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

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&quot;Two roads diverged by a yellow wood. And i took the one less traveled by and that has made all the diffrence.&quot; <br /> Robert Frost-

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