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A Beginning

emotive.eleven's picture
Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 26, 2008 - 22:35.

It could have been great.
A chance to start over.
A clean slate.
But wouldn't I have poisoned this too?
Wouldn't it have been the same,
only I would know what I want?
What I'm here for,
and what I have to lose.
But the apple is still poisoned.
The poems are still there, to
remind me that
I rarely get my way.

gradster1's picture

My main problem:

Submitted by gradster1 on July 26, 2008 - 23:54.

People would know me - even if my writing was gone.

/gradster(1)/ - blank - think on it

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emotive.eleven's picture

Me too, but maybe I'd be

Submitted by emotive.eleven on July 26, 2008 - 23:56.

Me too, but maybe I'd be able to forget that they knew me then. Denial works for awhile. And after denial comes the big old delete button.

gradster1's picture

*sigh*

Submitted by gradster1 on July 27, 2008 - 00:09.

That wouldn't work for me.

/gradster(1)/ - sad, distressed, and existential

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gradster1's picture

Balloons, piñatas, streamers, et cetera:

Submitted by gradster1 on July 27, 2008 - 00:12.

We are the only two on the recent comments page! Hooray!

/gradster(1)/ - fully awake, for some reason, past midnight (great, now I'm yawning)

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