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Literature
Encounter
I came home after a long long time and in the hallway
I bumped into a seventeen year old girl.
I said ‘it’s me’ but she shook her head like
there was water in her ears and salt in her eyes.
I said ‘it’s okay’ but she looked at me blankly.
I said ‘it won’t kill you’ but she hurried past
and turned that dark corner.
In the room I grew up in
I opened a wardrobe and an old friend fell out,
the yearbook photos where we sat side by side
staring the camera down. Arrogant and eagle-eyed.
That year it rained and I wore his jacket
until it smelt like him and me and his hair
and my smile
Literature
The Headshrinkers
When Todd opened the bathroom door and found Nick lying fully clothed in the tub with his wrists competently slit, it was not an absolute shock. Like Todd, Nick had had musical aspirations, but where Todd was an extrovert with his own band, The Headshrinkers, Nick had been a regular shut-in, working and reworking his ballads just for his own satisfaction apparently. With Marlboro lights and cheap lager Todd had coaxed Nick out of his shell. ‘Teach me one of yours,’ he’d requested early on. He had even got Nick playing rhythm guitar at a Headshrinkers gig one time. Strumming throughout from behind a veil of hair it was hard t
Literature
Save the Records
Eb6
"When nuclear bombs are falling on top of your head, is your first thought to save your records?
B7
No. Of course it’s not. It’s nopony’s first thought. It’s not the second thought or the third thought. Usually those are stupid worthless thoughts about how the sun must be reflecting off a street sign, or how--golly gee, that breeze sure is strong today!, or perhaps an interrogative as to whether or not Princess Celestia tripped on her royal bathroom rug and dropped the sun, if she could really drop such a thing like you would a coffee mug or a warhead. It’s not the fourth or fifth or sixth (those are reserve
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Bit straight-forward compared to what I like, and I'm really not sure I've captured what I was going for, buthey. It asked to be submitted like this, so here it is!
I REALLY wanted to leave out the question mark. It has no business on the 3rd line, other than to make the previous line correct. I might remove it.
So there.
I REALLY wanted to leave out the question mark. It has no business on the 3rd line, other than to make the previous line correct. I might remove it.
So there.
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I dig the question mark & half-hearted intention behind it, quite playful 