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broken baby girl screams of want for the new world just beyond the horizon but she's been sailing a sinking ship with holes in the sails and an anchor that drags through the depths crew jumped overboard a thousand leagues ago and she stands at the helm compass in hand perfectly unwilling to live this one down 100 yards from land she holds the hand of the figurehead tight enough that slivers work their way throughout her palm and as she breathes in the salty liquid and watches the sun streaked sky littered with screaming gulls fade away she knows that she's finally found a way into the great unknown
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM UTC
shipwreck
broken baby girl screams of want for the new world just beyond the horizon but she's been sailing a sinking ship with holes in the sails and an anchor that drags through the depths crew jumped overboard a thousand leagues ago and she stands at the helm compass in hand perfectly unwilling to live this one down 100 yards from land she holds the hand of the figurehead tight enough that slivers work their way throughout her palm and as she breathes in the salty liquid and watches the sun streaked sky littered with screaming gulls fade away she knows that she's finally found a way into the great unknown
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Sep 12, 2011
Sep 12, 2011 at 1:09 AM UTC
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