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February 8, 2012
By AnthropophobiaContagion808 GOLD, Lawton, Oklahoma
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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. - Bernard Meltzer

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As I put your black rose to my nose and inhaled its cancer, i smile with the thought of love. I would watch myself burn for the sake of your name. My heart whispers to me the shame of my ways and the honor of your kind. I shall walk away, heart in hand, but not in whole.

© Joseph S., San Anselmo, CA

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