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Paper Swans MAG

February 7, 2018
By Iamicon GOLD, Clyde, North Carolina
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Iamicon GOLD, Clyde, North Carolina
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I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
Jeremiah 31 : 3

An author is someone who has taught their mind to disobey.
Oscar Wilde
Beware: I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Frankenstein,Mary Shelley

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Paper swans can’t fly
Or float.
They just sit there
Beautiful,
Waiting, watching.
Never able to be something
Real and tangible.
They just are.
I am not a paper swan.

© Rebekah K., Parkesburg, PA

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