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Poetry! =P

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By Mark Jarman
You write about the life that's vividest.
And if that is your own, that is your subject.
And if the years before and after sixteen
Are colorless as salt and taste like sand—
Return to those remembered chilly mornings,
The light spreading like a great skin on the water...
 
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FIST
The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little,
and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again.
When have I ever not loved the pain of love?
But this has moved past love to mania.
This has the strong clench of the madman,
this is gripping the ledge of unreason,
before plunging howling into the abyss.
Hold hard then, heart.
This way at least you live.
 
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Eating Poetry
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll, their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.

She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.

I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
 
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Sometimes when life feels like its all downhill,'
When you feel nothing can change, nothing will
Ease the challenges that you need to face,
God sends help. Help in the form of a friend,
Someone who's words are enough to alleiviate
Every tear*, every tear,** Every trouble, every snare.
Thank you God, for this help you give.
True with every ailment comes a remedy
True with every foe comes a friend .

*tear = as in tears from the eyes
**tear = as in tear of paper
Awesomeee (y)
 
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