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August 26, 2009
The suggester of because rain is meant for lonely people by ~ItsxMagik notes, "The opening line reached out and grabbed me, but it's her use of the storm metaphor that I found especially touching - the destruction left in his wake even as she still longs for him - and the juxtaposition of that magnificent storm to her directionless raindrop, all written with beautiful descriptiveness." Be sure to get your shirts with more growing room!
Featured by fllnthblnk
Suggested by Blueskye27
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if living were a shirt,
you'd be size large
and i would be an
extra-small,
strangled by my own
attire,
because i spend my time
walking downtown
feeling smaller
and smaller
every
day.
if ever i had
the chance to hear
ten thousand abbey-monks
singing in perfect harmony,
i would still be stubborn enough
to say you
are more divine.
you are the start,
the in-between,
and the ever-after
of the most destructive
and beautiful storms
to grace the surface of my world;
every time you walk away
you leave behind
everything, everything,
all the evidence
that it will surely
rain again.
but i do not deserve
to dance in such a storm,
for i am worthless weather,
the kind where people
take the nearest object,
umbrella or newspaper,
and hide from the skies;
i'm a silent storm,
i am a raindrop in a
windless tempest,
i am
falling
without
direction.
you'd be size large
and i would be an
extra-small,
strangled by my own
attire,
because i spend my time
walking downtown
feeling smaller
and smaller
every
day.
if ever i had
the chance to hear
ten thousand abbey-monks
singing in perfect harmony,
i would still be stubborn enough
to say you
are more divine.
you are the start,
the in-between,
and the ever-after
of the most destructive
and beautiful storms
to grace the surface of my world;
every time you walk away
you leave behind
everything, everything,
all the evidence
that it will surely
rain again.
but i do not deserve
to dance in such a storm,
for i am worthless weather,
the kind where people
take the nearest object,
umbrella or newspaper,
and hide from the skies;
i'm a silent storm,
i am a raindrop in a
windless tempest,
i am
falling
without
direction.
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sempiternal
When I grow old
I want
a thousand
laugh-lines.
For when rainbows dilute and notebooks fatten
on time’s untimely passing,
when the moon falls out of kilter with a sun that
curdles in a sad, forgotten sky,
and the rain congeals inside the clouds
when the slurry of seconds sinks deep into my bones
and my skin crumples like parchment, my spine coils and splinters
and my fingers buckle, knuckle-cracking -
when my dreams fa
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Like a Man
"Please," he whimpered, eyes cast up from the polished linoleum as if in prayer, a single rivulet of blood trickling from a nostril. "I… I have a family."
"A family?" Charlie glanced from one crumpled heap of flesh and gristle to another, a distinct disinterest building behind insect black eyes. "How many kids?"
"I… t-two."
"Boy or girl?"
"Both boys."
He squatted next to the man, spinning the massive .357 on his finger like the protagonist of some spaghetti western. The barrel whirled around the blur of his hand like Death's private helicopter, gaining and losing momentum in an evident but indecipherable rhythm. He blew a
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hunchback whales.
mabe is nine, going on thirty-three.
she tells her mother i hate the way the sun and the moon don't share the sky equally, and i wish mister tompkin could still use his legs and if i could do anything it would be to read a hundred books at record speed and to stop fidgeting like you ask, and also, i'd pet a hunchback whale just once.
mabe's mother, who is busy cooking supper, asks mabe if she is keeping an eye on the twins. tells mabe to help them wash their little hands and to wash her own, too.
mabe's mother tells mabe to also set the table and to let the dog out and to stir the potatoes, please.
mabe stirs the potatoes then
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Full title: "because rain is meant for lonely people"
I'm only submitting this because I have been quiet for almost a month. I'll try to write something better at some point.
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Thank you so much for the DD. I must say it was quite unexpected. (But who ever expects a DD?) All the comments, views, favourites, and watches- THANK YOU. This means so much to me. A huge thanks goes to *Blueskye27 and ^fllnthblnk.
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You're extremely talented (:
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