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2.1k · Dec 2012
Synesthesia
Madeleine Banta Dec 2012
I hear the smell of chocolate ice cream
Ringing through my ears
It echoes through my head
Like an old ***** in an England church
I can taste Canon in D Major,
Refreshing like lemonade
On a hot summer day
I smell my favorite songs
Like the perfume rack at Macy’s,
When I read the printed word
I sigh, because I have tasted chocolate cake
And when I touch sandpaper
I taste banana cream pie
And when I see you
I hear the most beautiful ballad
Impalpable, playfully teasing me with its notes
Dancing in my head
Waiting to be attained
I never will reach it
But I will reach you
759 · Apr 2014
Utter Profanity
Madeleine Banta Apr 2014
One can only cuss outright
if they are classy as ****, amiright?
out of the mouths of babes
no longer satisfactory, but  laughable
oh how I wish I'd lived
in the time of sailors and pirates
when those words identified
the dialect of old
one no one rather liked, but
interesting all the same
for it came from months
drifting
creative minds
expressive of the inklings of emotion they allowed
vulgur, profane words
but someone took the time to make them up
so shouldn't they be reserved for the more creative
the more classy
and not from the mouths of middle school babes?

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