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Deviant

April 26, 2010
By ird13 GOLD, Beachwood, Ohio
ird13 GOLD, Beachwood, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
1. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
2. You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
3. You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity, all it takes is a little push.


Is there a death we celebrate more extravagantly than the passing of a devious thought?
Could It’s eyes have plead more deeply? Could It’s lips have been drier? Could It’s smile have been more profound?
Can any presence be forgotten so kindly, so weak an image that it is drawn out of our minds by a straw through the ear?
Echoing, sinuous, beckoning
We sip It’s wine so delicately. We cannot risk breaking It’s carefully constructed barrier to allow the flow to flood the flat, fallow surface we try so persistently to expel
I wish I could see their faces when I arrive with chisel in hand and a demented grin, the pinnacle of my expression


The author's comments:
I wrote this for my English class, it was called an Expression Poem, although we had structure for every line :/

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