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Surrealism
  Poised at the precipice
  of surreality
  and dreams
  it's like those mumbo-jumbo
  hazy hallucination
  paintings
  with clouds etching
  out of nostrils
  and grass
  teeming with
  debris--
  pantomiming
  symbols of
  a forged
  reality
  But at the same time it's
  artistic it is
  also
  literary
  evocative
  of all the
  nostalgic
  childhood
  memories
  a chapter-ending
  with a clap
  of covers
  and a hand
  reaching for a fresh tale
  that will
  take
  me to
  new lands
  where dry spells are chased by
  rain
  and I'm left to my own
  terms
  I wonder what it takes to make
  it in
  an adult
  world
  So I don't know
  don't ask me
  what the next
  several months hold
  I'm scared
  and sad
  honestly
  at the time time
  I feel pulled
  toward something
  bright and beautiful
  something that's all mine
  And until then
  I'll return
  to the dreamlike canvas
  rife
  with monsters of
  imagination
  curlicue desires
  all the tortured
  artists pined for
  like I'm
  pining
  just for
  mine

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I wrote this about going off to college. It's a surreal time in any teenager's life--you're leaving your life behind, and starting over new. It's the first taste most of us get of real adulthood. It's exciting, and it's frightening, and it forces us into our own.