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liz-padalino
in spring when there is nothing but the melting snow and the bare brown twigs and life ready to exhale there is no flower for the bee to buzz in so he comes after me and I puff up the summer makes them greedy with blooms to fight over and nests to gaurd and, tending to my own business, they sting me anyway for being and i puff up summer days get shorter and blackberries ripen and i gather heavy friuts and the branches bounce back, and there are the bees consumed in their work and this time i am stung only by thorns and finally autumn comes and i bite into that first crispy apple and juice runs down my wrist and my hands are sticky and sweet and bees come wildly swarming around me like a halo and we are happily drunk with the joy of autumn together
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Sep 23, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM UTC
on the contentedness of bees in autumn
why do you talk like that? like a schoolteacher like your friends like all the other twentysomethings like you moved to a big city and here i am in a small town i've known you your whole life and now you tell me twice you grabbed a drink last week i could sense the tone as i read it was not the you i knew and i told you to get real *she said to me: you've been reading too much of that guy who wrote catcher in the rye* and i went silent and you were ****** right
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 10:45 PM UTC
whose a phoney?
mind wanders, detached flotsam trapped in future's seiche waves crash unnoticed
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM UTC
lost
I add sweet sweet honey warm to feed my little yeasts
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 4:01 PM UTC
bread culture
concrete speed white dash dash dash dash dash signs read Jesus John 3:3 160 miles to cincinati 148 miles to cincinatti 150 miles to cincinatti dash dash dash concrete concrete I have lost my creativity the highway has ****** it from me i see only sterile ruins of what was once great and beautiful but is now trash on the side of the road void of spirit or character Where am I? Who am I? What am I? What have we become? Why have we made life into such an inorganic jungle of cold fear desperation hollowness? Why have we destroyed what we were given and created a jail? A mental physical jail where we have all become strangers. We are foreigners in our own land we dont know where we came from we dont know where we are going but we just keep going and going and going will the highway ever end? it won't because we will continue to build it faster than we can drive faster than the fast food we eat along the way
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 1:04 PM UTC
Highway
I'm itching everywhere but really I don't care 'cause the air's so sweet and the crickets song won't last long summer's almost gone.
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 1:01 PM UTC
Poison Ivy