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The Shelf
January 3, 2014
Standing on the wooden shelf
Makes my spine hurt
Makes my pages stiff
Crammed onto this wooden shelf
Makes me want to burst out
Until I feel something
Grasping my cover
Pulling me out of my misery
Thumbing through the pages that make me
Then I’m being closed up
And I’m taken towards the shelf
“No!” I cry with no sound
“Yes,” the shelf calls back
I thud onto the surface
And slide into a gap
My life on the shelf
Has begun again
© Alexis B., Pittsburgh, PA
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