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Asterisk*

Whenever you said

that I should be myself

the next word out of your mouth

should have been 'Asterisk',

because there's one limitation:

I must be an imitation

of your actions and

your perception;

I can be different

so long as different is you

and All that I do

must either be your decision

or my hidden vision

so I may be accepted by you

Because, God forbid

someone be arranged

in a different way

than the way you were made.

When I find me full of hate,

I realize I'm just full of you,

and you can spread through me like a disease

Yeah, be my cancer,

spread faster and faster,

and you can ******* me

and ensicken me

and say that you do your harm for care,

which isn't there,

so please, appease me

and follow that statement

with the word 'Asterisk.'

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Written by
derick
American
Published
Dec 21, 2011
Lines·Words
30·144
Notes

This was written today as part of an English class project. We had a slam poet come in and talk to us and he had us write our own poems. This one I wrote in about 3 minutes, and I was the first to present. Afterwards, I laughed when my friend told me that she didn't want to follow me. lol.

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