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Poet (Free verse) by Shardik
Hanging from the rafters with a swallowed tongue Ugly shoes, dirty fingernails, and my fly undone. I knew it all along, the whole time, this boy's laugh - - is gone like an episode of "That's Incredible"... What I was seeking found me asleep at the wheel Head on and completely face first through the window. Love, yeah... Like an American Express card in - - a Turkish prison. You raped my mind professionally. I thought often of earlier things -- Honey dew melon, And scrambled eggs, the smell of smoke and citrus. There are other memories too; Incest, hangovers,  No - fucking place to sleep, and you every where but with me. Others will probably wish that you die alone and crazy, but mother I want you to hear me read like a big boy. Exempt, with nothing in between you and your first born, but the truth, and all of the ways you squeezed me dead.

Down the ladder: How I got my Jacket back

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Arithmetic Mean: 8.2
Weighted score: 6.6
Overall Rank: 607
Posted: May 2, 2004 8:18 PM PDT; Last modified: May 2, 2004 8:18 PM PDT
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[10] MacFrantic @ 204.98.23.93 | 3-May-04/11:39 AM | Reply
What a great poem...
Everywhere is one word- S6 L2
...loved "You raped my mind professionally"

Brilliant *10*
[n/a] Doug @ 205.188.116.140 | 11-Jun-04/6:22 PM | Reply
A sad little poem about a sad little boy,still afraid to grow up,still afraid to love a woman after 23 years,so sad.Almost made me cry.
[n/a] horus8 @ 24.130.62.63 > Doug | 11-Jun-04/7:25 PM | Reply
Shardik isn't 23, he's a ninety year old man after hot seat.
[n/a] horus8 @ 24.130.62.63 > Doug | 11-Jun-04/7:26 PM | Reply
Hot seat, and spackle, he has a penchant for spackle.
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