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July 20, 2013
By DannyStrider GOLD, Guelph, Other
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I&#039;m not a fan of puppeteers <br /> but I&#039;ve a nagging fear <br /> someone else is pulling all the strings<br /> -Discord

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I want to sleep

for a thousand

years

and

wake up all

alone

I need the world

to be different

from the

horrors I have

known


Life is cheap and

death comes easy

the

bodies

of one or

twenty

Lie piled around

me I am

slowly

drowning

in their empty

bones

© Courtney K., Bethel Park, PA

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