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December 6, 1907

In Monongah, you grew up on company store bread and the the black dust on your father's face Incense and the rhythm of the cantor's voice in the corner church you attended every Sunday And you would help your mother pull out the stitches of her wedding dress when money was tight. Sometimes in bed you would lie awake and listen to your brother breathe and wonder where you would be in ten years. He couldn't tell you. You couldn't tell you.
You liked to listen to the Slavonic and Italian and German everybody spoke in your neighborhood, Melted together to form a new language entirely, one you could under

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Dew stains
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Morbid kids tell morbid talesshe told us she'd found a body in the old rotting-brick building and while you made question marks with your eyes, I traced their curve with my mouth. she turned to go; she was just a kid anyway and who knew if there had ever been a body in the first place but we decided to err on the side of caution. I mean, given the unlikely equation of father plus daughter plus broken-windowed school divded by girl with either a lying tongue or a terribly truthful one, were you really expecting something real? and as soon as she left, I swung my swiveled hip over the bike seat and pedaled f Morbid kids tell morbid tales
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Cracks in the wall
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Ode to youI Attention fellow human: it's time to box up your old skin. Put your fingertips and freckles into storage alongside last year's fads and photographs filled with unfamiliar faces. And hold still while the new flesh folds over your angles to avoid ripping it, paper-thin, tearing over your shoulderblades the place where your wings would be (if you had wings)
and leaving long twisting scars inside and out.
II This is your first last kiss. This - tasting bittersweet on your tongue in the front seat of someone else's car and buzzing through your blurry eyes Ode to you
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Current Residence: five thousand miles from birdland
Interests: Photography, writing, spending obscene amounts of time on the phone
Favourite movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Everything is Illuminated
Favourite band or musician: The Decemberists, the Postal Service, Stars, Beck
Favourite genre of music: Glamorous indie rock and roll.
Favourite artist: Rodchenko
Favourite poet or writer: e.e. cummings, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kurt Vonnegut
Favourite photographer: Rodchenko
Operating System: Windows XP, unfortunately
Skin of choice: Warm
Tools of the Trade: Pen, paper, muse, Mountain Dew

Email: midnightshining@gmail.com
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MSN: baconyfresh@hotmail.com
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~zakuro-kiri

Mar 25, 2007, 4:56:44 PM

cooooome baaaaaack, niiiiiiiinaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

~alientwilight

Aug 12, 2006, 9:19:02 PM

you have a nice

~Jonoage

Feb 23, 2006, 6:13:36 PM

Bee's.

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~lalahsghost

Feb 15, 2006, 3:47:07 AM

so many downward shots, whyso?

care to check out my page?

~worldforgetting

Feb 5, 2006, 9:49:59 AM

thank you very much for the add, your a great writer!

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~Anartistswings

Feb 5, 2006, 8:21:25 AM

Thanks for adding me to your friends!

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*ivanlee

Dec 31, 2005, 10:26:15 PM

thank you for the fav!

=mrsselfdestruct

Dec 3, 2005, 8:06:32 PM

Thank you for your kind words

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~Sciolism

Nov 26, 2005, 6:39:36 PM

You write and take pictures long after your age. You should surely pat yourself on the back.

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