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Old 04-10-2010, 03:27 PM   #424
Emmanuela
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my initial continuing contradiction
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she has been dancing forever, and now it is very late, even for musicians
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to make us run out of numbers and collapse into infinity, but perhaps the answer is simply one
 
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Originally Posted by Selenay View Post



When it’s been out of sight and out of mind for such a long time
That’s how one forgets.
So I reached in the back of my closet, pulled it out
And tried it on and it still fits.

Some cover their pain up with
Lots of MAC make-up
But I can’t help but blush.


In your red lipstick and lilac kercheif
You're the most pretty lady in the world
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I have been one acquainted with the spatula,
the slotted, scuffed, Teflon-coated spatula

that lifts a solitary hamburger from pan to plate,
acquainted with the vibrator known as the Pocket Rocket

and the dildo that goes by Tex,
and I have gone out, a drunken bitch,

in order to ruin
what love I was given,

[. . .]

I have. For I am a poet. And it is my job, my duty
to know wherein lies the beauty


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