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You Had To Go (Free verse) by peaceseeker

furrowed my brow, hunched my shoulders and saw you, very possibly, you saw me as well, as I walked past the taverna. later, as I inched towards the door searching, your face smiled at mine. caught in the headlights of your eyes my eyes widened and I backed away into the darkness, with my "friend." later, while you were onstage singing and playing your first band gig? I think you saw me pull up outside. you turned around and looked out at me at the end of a song, the next one I knew by heart, I sang along, sitting outside in my car, engine off, windows down my friend smoking, trying to understand. all I know is I gave you too much and never really drew the line with you. I just wanted to be with you, forever I was always too available for you. but man, I loved to ride your longboard it was only a loan, and you had to go play your longboard and ride your guitar.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 21-Sep-03/8:35 PM
[_] AABB rhyming scheme
[X] About romantic love
[_] About writing
[_] About suicide or self-mutilation
[_] Arbitrary indentation
[X] Arbitrary line breaks
[_] Autobiographical but in the third person
[_] Clerical errors
[_] Clichéd imagery (gazing out of window, pits of despair)
[_] Clichéd rhymes (love/above, heart/apart)
[_] 'Depression' words (putrid, wretched, darkness)
[X] Devoid of alliteration or any such linguistic embellishments
[X] Devoid of rhyme
[X] Devoid of simile, reification or any such literary devices
[X] Devoid of wondrous or fantastical imagery
[_] Drug reference
[_] Elves, unicorns, etc.
[_] Insipidly whimsical or zany
[_] Internet shorthand or emoticons
[_] Leaving rant
[X] Lower case
[_] 'Lyrics'
[X] Melodramatic
[_] Naively religious or superstitious
[_] Obsessed with femininity
[_] Overabundance of ellipses
[X] Pointedly unanswered questions
[_] Rage against the machine
[X] Reference to the author's 'social life'
[_] Repetition of a word or phrase to the point of nausea
[_] Sanctimonious
[X] Self-obsessed
[_] Sentimental
[_] Smugly-named protagonist
[_] Thesaurophilia
[_] Untitled
[_] Vicarious wish fulfilment




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