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Free verse № 53090

Claustrophobia

by INTRANSIT

Member since 2002 · Posted 16 Jun 2003 · Edited 17 Jun 2003 · 7 comments

Overwhelmed by the bookstore, I escaped entombment and ran out screaming in hieroglyphics.

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[7] Kitch 17-Jun-03/8:56 AM Reply
This could also be titled 'A Relationship' 7

Nice shorts by the way.
[9] horus8 17-Jun-03/11:28 AM Reply
"in ) = ( * ^^ @ # > | ) = // &" with "in the reptile section" maybe even change "in " to "from".
[n/a] INTRANSIT › horus8 17-Jun-03/2:35 PM Reply
ohshure. go for the obvious why don't we. AND I would've stayed in the reptile section. if that had been the case. also, it's still your cigarette. it' just on the floor now.
[9] horus8 17-Jun-03/4:08 PM Reply
Ah yes, my cigerette, crushed by the bitch in red and high heels.
[9] horus8 17-Jun-03/4:10 PM Reply
ha! somebody 1 you, fucking bastards, pimple juiced your dockers!
[n/a] INTRANSIT › horus8 17-Jun-03/4:27 PM Reply
That is EXACTLY why I wear fatigued dockers.
[8] god'swife 17-Jun-03/6:35 PM Reply
Funny, yesterday I was in Dutton's in Brentwood, and I too was so overwhelmed. Four giant rooms reeking of paper and binding. You know the kind, stacks on the floor, wooden ladders for reaching up up up into the nethersphere. Classical music. Anyway, I swooned when I walked in. I had to sit on a pile of encyclopedias with my head between my legs. My friend Scott fanned me with the newest copy of The New Yorker. Poets! We give so much power to the words. Jesus it's like an axe coming down. The last line is genius, all those esoteric implications. Bravo.