Did You Notice The Way We All Change Our Names?

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Submitted by gradster1 on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 4:55pm

I'm losing my poetry and I'm losing myself and part of me- and I don't- and I can't care.

Je m'oublie, she said this afternoon, would not be correct. Hopefully you would not forget yourself! You are attached to you, I would think.

You would be wrong, ma dame, I wanted to say. Reflexive verbs or not; I can still say this in two completely different ways, and though I know in the literal sense you cannot understand one of them, I also know that in every other sense you cannot even begin to comprehend any of them.

I think someone did care, once.

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I read this three times. It's

Submitted by doyourealize on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 8:17pm.

I read this three times. It's so interesting, A. And beautifully phrased. Your writing always makes me think.

Isn't this title a lyric from one of Jude's songs?

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~realize
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Que Sera Sera.

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Thanks. It is, provided you

Submitted by gradster1 on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 1:42pm.

Thanks.

It is, provided you switch 'all' with 'both'.

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-A

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gradster...

Submitted by ggevalt on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 10:20pm.

I'm not sure what to make of your new avatar, except of course that it represents how you're feeling these days. Hope things are OK. Liked the piece.
gg

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