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NOT THAT KIND OF SCOUT.
At school / Moorcraft said / about joining
@terry-collett
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Pumpkin
A little slice of the pie / I try to consume but I / throw it up every time.
@timothy-brown
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Love trumps hate
Cadaverous crotchety gouged out eyes. / Scalped trite and malnourished minds. / Where am I? What has this land become?
@sarah-kunz
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Dead End
Dead End / sharp claws / dark skin
@allen-wilbert
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✈ ▌▌
Lucifer just said I'm two-faced; / But the reality is I wear many faces / Each one a mask
@duderocketship
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winter lips
winter lips / press into her memory / bones aching with the fever of remembrance
@wanderer-3
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Define
Demand the climate obeys orders. / seek vengeance on the scientists if it declines. / turn over the redwoods to the firing squad
@m-e-sills
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Cut not a Faerie Tress!
By glance upon the emerald dale / a laird rides 'pon the crest / Grasping in his calloused hand
@ottoborg
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honey television
i scalped a false ursine prophet, all golden / and colorless, to pour honey / into your wounds, dripping with cold sweat
@cyrus
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A Faultless Departure
Never wear the same skin too long / Lest you get caught in your own death / The eyes were scalped from the skull
@TonguesOfOthers
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The Way the Black Sky Caresses the Moon
The way the black sky caresses the moon / It cradles it’s body, so easily swoon / The way the black sky , caresses the moon
@erin-virginia-corrigan
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SHE she she
No longer the Oracle, / Unworshipped now, / I long for the thunder of four feet
@AmandaIS
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BARUCH AND FAY AND ALL OK.
At the back / of the brick bomb shelter / out of window view
@terry-collett
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The Lone Rider & Ranger
The lone rider / left the station at high noon that day. / Sadly, it was something he had to do.
@jonny-angel
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COURAGE UNDER TRIALS : for Tony Ilori Adaramoye
Shafts of courage depicted on the / parchment of hope / Running into beamlight of victory
@ralph-akintan
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Unearth
Scalped and peeling skin of *virgin* laments / Broken hearted *suicide at three am* / The early waking dawn of *last night’s* tragedy
@TonguesOfOthers
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CURRICULUM
CURRICULUM / Blood seeps / It curtains their eyes
@Marc_Hawkins
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Puppet Master
There is a Puppet Master, / Who strings her spirit, / Silences her melody;
@Charlotte-huston
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i SCALPED the GENERAL
Into a Dollar General I brave / scalp and pillage / looking for a new hatchet, a new pair of mocassins,
@wordvango
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Held within, without
Standing alone, surrounded / Outside a gas lamp - a flickering essence of mystery / A path.
@lei-ryce
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married man's rebellion
i just want to stay up to midnight and watch the footie... / see, already, it's there, he wannabe blind man / turning phonetics upside down
@removed.polaroid-scrabble
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Wednesday Morning
Let the snow fall / I will brave it because I am a brave. / And braves don’t cower in the face of ominous storms.
@willimacster
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snakeskinsnakeskin
You've got snakesnakesnakeskins / dripping from your sickeyessickeyes, guy, / and you've got blackblackblacktar heroin
@gigi-tiji
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