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PREDATORS (Epigram)
Thick skin, big body and sharp teeth, they slay
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These greedy animals hunt for their prey
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Their g
@Marguerite
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Disappearing acts
Parents act like they've never been children
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Just like teachers act like they've never been studen
@Chalsey
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Position/Designation
*Talentless with no position (Goon)
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Talentless with position (Doom)
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Talented with no position (D
@bharti-singh
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Oxymoron
Gun in one hand, bible in the other.
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Is not the word a sword?
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Why need for a gun too?
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Or is it
@ylzm
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Truth
If you want to find out about someone’s character you ask them how do they gauge truth, or how do th
@vea-vents
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Women On The Rise
Women Rising: Five Predictions for Women in the 2012 Workplace
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In Society 3.0, Dr. Wilen-Daugenti
@MattG
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Dictator
the more i try to change myself
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my more i see who i really am.
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depression kicks in when i try to
@bear
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Boy wearing paint (Part I)
Don't look at me and say you see
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good,
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They don't like that. The way
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my hands are caked in col
@leftovers
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Lost Angeles
Helicopter blades chop through arid air
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sirens fill space off in the distance.
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Somewhere, someon
@evan-ponter
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late midlife crisis?
when I ask myself
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what I am
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I am not sure I know the answer
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a ‚mature‘ man
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of 70 plus
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gran
@wwhoelbling
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Stuck
Never more than I can bear
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It's what you promised me
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A wrenching family affair
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Obsessed with h
@oceanst0rm
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All in All
Greater than all created things summed up
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And multiplied by immortality,
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The LORD attends to eve
@Christian
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Humanity
*We* are *all* human
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Why should *we* fight for power
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when it kills *us* **now**?
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© Matthew Har
@matthew-harlovic
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Mood
She’s mad, my bad
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She’s shouting, I’m silent
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She’s sweating, I’m dithering
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She’s all over the
@BelieverMusaWaterson
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Chief "Hashi" Disarrayed
The forested breeze blew eastwards. On each swing of the wind, the birds flew and fluttered. Each of
@SassyJ
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authority as a weapon.
slash their words by
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demanding obedience.
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burn them by
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shaming their dreams.
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cut them to the
@soulmusings
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The Obsequious Emperor
Long live the men
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battered and opressed
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Long live the King
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old, frail and dying.
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Hail to the
@meister-lendonshire
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Eternal postmoderism
The rule of the self is exalted above
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any adherence to any thing/feeling.
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Their notions of doubt
@MichaelTChase
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Unrule
Were we deaf to the rules
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How would we enjoy
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The sweet sound they make
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We they break
@danny-hefer
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Jump When I Say, "Jump." - 5/12/04
Jump when I say, “jump.”
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No.
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Why not?
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I’ll jump when I’m ready.
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No, jump now. I said, “jump.
@29across
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Growing up Dicked
We are a generation,
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Indeed, a nation,
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Raised upon foreign warring.
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Scapegoat aggravation.
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B
@amy-bells
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The Saddest Day
The saddest day, it was yesterday.
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Smoky sullen pushy congested lightless sky day.
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Wrecked and w
@martin-narrod
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Authority
If you have authority in a field
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You must acquire expertise
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For if you scrutinize a master
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Fro
@john-b
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The King of The World
Like puppets dancing on strings
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Are Presidents and princes
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Prime Ministers and politicians
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And
@moomin
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