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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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I Want to Get Away From You

Submitted by rbbrdck_137 on June 12, 2008 - 19:01.

I want to escape,
I want to get away from you.
I open the door
and close it behind me.
I hope with all my heart you won't here me,
I don't want to have to pay YOUR conciquences.
As I walk down
the brittle, stone steps,
tears escape from me.
Pooling at my eyes,
tumbling down my chubbby cheaks.
The bitterly cold stairs
almost burn my feet.
My hand slides down
the rough, old banester.
As I walk,
I think of you.
My hands clench
into tight fists,
that are filled with my rage.
I start to jog,
what I want is to get away.
I trip on the ragged old stone,
the floor pludges towards me,
just as I reach the bottom.
The cement burns my hands,
as blood seeps through
my pail, pail skin.
I look up,
there
you
are.

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