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When You Take a Word Apart

October 2, 2011
By StarryRoss GOLD, Albuquerque, New Mexico
StarryRoss GOLD, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Favorite Quote:
"Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E.L. Doctorow


When you take a word apart,
you cut it into pieces.
When you take a word apart,
it seems so much uglier.
Ribb
Ons.
Mel
Ody.
Be
Au
Tiful.
How
Ug
ly
Is that


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on Oct. 11 2011 at 5:43 pm
gottagetout17 SILVER, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"No matter what anybody tells you words and ideas can change the world" ~Dead Poets Society

I love this. It's one of those things you don't know what you like about it except everything! haha

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on Oct. 11 2011 at 3:08 pm
Ha! I never thought about that! But it's true. I think more of an ending, more of a final thought, could make this better though.

on Oct. 11 2011 at 12:34 pm
ErictheRed SILVER, Overland Park, Kansas
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Favorite Quote:
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
Mark Twain

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
Albert Einstein

I like the format, and the lack of angst is quite refreshing.

on Oct. 10 2011 at 3:05 pm
Kristi184 BRONZE, Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Favorite Quote:
No matter what we say or do we will always be friends
-my best friend

that was really good and its a good eye opener it makes me stop and think its really really good

on Oct. 10 2011 at 7:49 am
CourteneyTOXICITY BRONZE, Sacramento, California
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I really like that!

on Oct. 9 2011 at 6:58 pm
StarryRoss GOLD, Albuquerque, New Mexico
19 articles 0 photos 30 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." -E.L. Doctorow

Thanks guys, i appreciate your feedback! Hmm, for elaboration, i guess when we glance at words, they're just regular words. But when you really think about it, stare at it, feel it on your tongue, it starts to sound really strange. Like all these words are a cacophonous string of syllables but when we hear them so often, it escapes from our mind

on Oct. 9 2011 at 1:24 pm
TheHangingGirl BRONZE, Winter Haven, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
"Poets utter great and wise things that they themselves can not comprehend."

Astounding really. It opened my eyes, and I never really thought of it that way. How is this not in the magazine?

on Oct. 9 2011 at 11:29 am
eulalia joseph BRONZE, Tsumeb, Other
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Interesting could you ellaborate