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Date Posted: 06:16:05 04/16/01 Mon
Author: Jessica
Subject: d'ja ever notice that i almost-always end my poems with some sort of 1- or 2-line conclusion? we are creatures of habit ...

(i'm on a mission to make every single stanza EVER start with the word 'and'.)

"and"

and though it seemed to stay
exactly the same,
it was shifting in unimaginable steps.

& it didn't all go from 1 to 2,
or from up to down.
things can sometimes skip a stone.

& though you seemed to say
that everything was ok,
your feet were shuffling in unimaginable leaps.

and you didn't all go from here to there,
or from me to you.
you can sometimes skip a stir -

and it's almost enough to feign sleep
with eyes
open.

and you know,
causing so much commotion
just might shock you almost to the point
of believing yourself.
you know it's bad when you remember the lies
better than the truth.

& here you stay,
fooling everyone and yourself,
getting by on next to nothing
when you've got everything,
and next to everything when you've got nothing.

makes me wonder which way is down.

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power to the last line! doo doo doo (those are trumpet noises) i like this and you know i do. and if you didn't know... now you do. (NT) -- saira, 15:08:36 04/16/01 Mon
"you know it's bad when you remember the lies better than the truth"... hah, that sounds like me. I like this line and the last stanza. (NT) -- Hobbes, 15:00:30 04/17/01 Tue

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