Tag: life
member name: Samantha H.
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February 03, 2008 10:57 PM EST --
When I was in high school, I was always in bed at a decent time of the night, though I wasn't bound by any formal curfew. I was a good student, and school started at 7:50 am. I had to be up and ready, . . .
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July 13, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
**Author's Note**
This story has a different writing style than I would normally use. It was written as a first person narrative with very little dialogue because it is meant to be cut and then performed . . .
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June 24, 2007 08:14 PM EDT --
I crushed two stars in my hand
and laughed at the massacre of wishes;
I wanted to be high on dreams,
snorting stardust like cocaine and
making a wish every time I hit a line.
They didn’t come . . .
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September 03, 2007 02:29 PM EDT --
You degraded me
with homogeneous mixtures—
too much androgen cheese
was added to testosterone burgers
and I was ostracized,
cut from society’s happy meals
and thrown into waste bins.
Value . . .
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May 18, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
The
colors
together
tend to mingle
and turn an ugly
shade of burnt sienna.
Individually they were
beautiful shades that existed . . .
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June 26, 2008 11:25 PM EDT --
I try you on in the store
the way I would try on
an expensive leather coat or
a pair of high heeled boots,
mulling over the decision
in front of a mirror
and the sales lady,
wondering . . .
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June 23, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
Sharp as knives,
sanguine tears
F
A
L
L
from hidden caves
of my soul,
clattering in
a dark shallow grave
where childish dreams have
become fine particles
of pretty fairy dust shifting
aimlessly . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:35 PM EDT --
I painted you a picture of beauty—
one that was embedded in the sky.
I whispered you an elogy,
leaving it on the smooth ridges of your lips.
I pressed my hands on yours,
but you pushed me away. . . .
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July 26, 2007 01:42 PM EDT --
If you were here right now,
standing right in front of me,
I would kiss you.
I would plant one on you
that would steal your breath
as it burned into your memory.
Lip to lip, and hip to hip,
my arms would . . .
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June 22, 2008 07:41 PM EDT --
It's tough getting back into the swing of things in city life, and I don't adjust to change well.
For the last ten months, my boyfriend and I lived in a very small town. There . . .
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August 10, 2008 10:22 AM EDT --
Well, nightmares have become a nightly ritual in my head, and have been typical for years. I have no idea why. Sometimes I have nightmares that I’ve been having since I was a little kid. Sometimes they . . .
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August 29, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
Tears falling
in an ocean of blue ink.
I'm drowning in my head.
Arms flailing,
splashing words on these pages,
but nothing I have said.
Pulled under,
submerged in my confusion.
I'm breathing . . .
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October 18, 2007 02:19 PM EDT --
He likes to read me
run his fingers
across the lines
of my remains...feminine
curve of delicate
thought
he likes to think
he's trapped breath
in stalled stanzas—
unfinished as dreams— . . .
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November 24, 2007 03:30 PM EST --
She needed damaged dreams
to be repaired, so crane prayers
lifted metal spirits higher
until the storm slammed
into downtown events
as below, on Thirteenth Avenue,
due to rush hour traffic,
. . .
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March 20, 2008 01:50 AM EDT --
Okay, so if you read my last article about Respect, you know that I have been having some issues with students who vandalize my house in "innocent" yet annoying ways.
Well, it happened . . .
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May 14, 2008 07:53 PM EDT --
Today, I officially had my name changed back to my maiden name. For as easy as it was to have it changed when I was married, I couldn't . . .
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June 04, 2008 11:21 PM EDT --
Today was my last day of my first year teaching. It was a short day, and I only had three classes, each about 25 minutes long. It was an up and down morning, for sure.
We had a staff meeting . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:30 PM EDT --
We just moved. I am planning on starting school in the fall, which is around the end of August. It's an online Master's program. However, I would still like a job. I could probably do a part time . . .
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July 23, 2007 11:35 PM EDT --
Wrapped in your oversized hoody
with my head on your chest,
I felt the planets align and the stars
shone brighter than they had in years
and I signed in utter contentment.
But dread draped . . .
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September 16, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Grab angst by its crinkled throat and take it in,
dissolve it, chew on its bones
and maybe it will disappear
for reader and writer.
Take sinewy, sultry lines,
and dance with them
until your midnight . . .
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