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#409611voted by our readers
By akutle PLATINUM
Oswego, Illinois

At the ring of the iron gate, The clanging of metal against metal they eat the snow off each other's backs, they are walking silhouettes of bones, their meat stretched and fed...
akutle PLATINUM, Oswego, Illinois
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pinksnowboots BRONZE, Knoxville, Tennessee
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#409613 Poetry
By Katiebean SILVER
Fort Collins, Colorado
Katiebean SILVER, Fort Collins, Colorado
7 articles 0 photos 5 comments
#409614 Poetry
By ang3la BRONZE
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
ang3la BRONZE, Nazareth, Pennsylvania
4 articles 1 photo 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If the only words you can use are swear ones, you have a lacking vocabulary."

#409615 Poetry
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By megancalfas BRONZE
Rolling Hills, California
megancalfas BRONZE, Rolling Hills, California
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

#409616 Poetry
aliyah_rae_welter BRONZE, Monticello, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#409617 Poetry
moonsofpluto BRONZE, Lexington, Kentucky
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#409618 Poetry
By Asickmindforhostage SILVER
Wellington, Other
Asickmindforhostage SILVER, Wellington, Other
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
the boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. who shall say where the one ends and the other begins.

#409619 Poetry
By fluoxetinedreams SILVER
Olympia Washington, Washington
fluoxetinedreams SILVER, Olympia Washington, Washington
8 articles 3 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominously into the organic, it is a glory and a privelege to love what Death doesn't touch." -Donna Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

#409620 Poetry
By Anonymous