AFTER the war the crumbled wall was well at rest. With time and the expense of memory it said in wasted bricks, "You have fallen, but not so completely."
Dust revealed the blush foreground, the light as it was, then,
Watched with purple eyelids, and
Said now, "You have fallen, but not so completely".
In this instance he would go inside himself to the land where he and his sister had grown up, where he, rather, they had already begun to prepare for their children. The invisible generation still waiting to appear, they were to tend all the familiar things.
But inside it was not the kind of place he could look at or walk past--instead it was a blue coil reverberating with a chill tone. This was forgiveness. He might've had a field of hearts to share this choice, all for naught. He spent those moments, that evening, choking on the one he had.
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Hello! Welcome! Welcome to new comers and to old friends alike! *Art
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The merry month.
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THIS SUMMER FOOD & WhIskEy goes vegan. In the month of May I'll host
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This is a dip into where I’m going with the next mix. This particular
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Guess who I met today?
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*to Paul Harrison*
3 or 4 bottles of tussin
and a couple vics I'd
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I woke up very early this morning wanting to blurt this out. I don't use
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