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Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

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Dramatize

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Submitted by greenie on August 3, 2008 - 16:57.

Dramatize neglect
and maybe, just maybe,
you'll hear the trumpets
and the parade,
the recognition that
it's not the same
as it was...

Dramatize depression
and the world will circle
down and round,
blackening and exploding
with marbled surfaces of
blasphemy.

Dramatize inspiration
and the whiring crowds
will gather to mock and shock,
molten piles of Garbage Cans
Anonymous.

Dramatize religion
and the king becomes the god,
the Egyptian jackal is worshipped
as the mighty ruler that his fur
denies.

Dramatize love
and the symphonic release,
the last stanza of Shakespearean sonnetry
(albeit a sonnet is stanza-less),
the majestic sweep of swishing musical
accompaniment--
is lost

forever.

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