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By itchyriver PLATINUM
San Diego, California

A hundred hands surround me and reach out to help. But when I try to grab one, to hold on, I come up empty. My palms are bare save for the beads of sweat and jerking tin...
itchyriver PLATINUM, San Diego, California
27 articles 5 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
That's either snow or a bunch of white flowers.


#159412 Poetry
By APL123 BRONZE
..., New Jersey
APL123 BRONZE, ..., New Jersey
1 article 1 photo 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" - Dr. Seuss

#159413 Poetry
By AwesomeRedHead BRONZE
Christiansburg, Virginia
AwesomeRedHead BRONZE, Christiansburg, Virginia
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"And though she be but little, she is fierce." ~Shakespeare

#159414 Poetry
By daydreamer67 SILVER
Grahamsville, New York
daydreamer67 SILVER, Grahamsville, New York
8 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Don't let people keep you down, always look for good in each and every situation.

#159415 Poetry
By gmfrancone GOLD
New Lenox, Illinois
gmfrancone GOLD, New Lenox, Illinois
17 articles 0 photos 3 comments
Nikkovrlordofdethmetal BRONZE, Scottsdale, Arizona
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot; Ladies and gentlemen, PREPARE FOR SLAUGHTER!&quot;<br /> -Nikk M. 12/31/09-10 Deth Metal Decade

#159417 Poetry
By Snooty SILVER
Newgermany, Other
Snooty SILVER, Newgermany, Other
8 articles 3 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
if you judge some one, you dont have time to love them . ;)

#159418 Poetry
By Squint7 BRONZE
Pequannock, New Jersey
Squint7 BRONZE, Pequannock, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Because, he said, &quot;I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I&#039;ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you&#039;d forget me.&rdquo;

#159419 Poetry
By brookeemily GOLD
Manhasset, New York
brookeemily GOLD, Manhasset, New York
18 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. --F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

#159420 Poetry
joshdunaf BRONZE, Waterloo, Iowa
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;No one has ever become poor by giving&quot; -Anne Frank