tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59884942553019443412024-02-08T17:42:46.077+00:00Extollightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-25260433528371217132022-09-01T23:21:00.001+01:002022-09-01T23:21:24.193+01:00Spen<div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ll think of you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">in spray paint stencilled dreams</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The star speckled sky</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A chattering of skulls</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">A purple stippled butterfly</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The cosmos, a blinking eye.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Your art will live on</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Your heart will, too.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Do you know how much</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">you were loved?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">So many friends.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The messages came through</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">in white and blue</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">‘Sensitive, kind, caring’</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Your humour, passion,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Your intelligence and talent.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But let’s be real:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We knew your bad side, too</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">But was that really even you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">or just something that possessed you?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">One day:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I thought we’d sit and talk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Figure it out</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Put those teenage years to bed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pencil in the gaps</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Pour colour in the cracks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The last thing I said to you:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">‘Next summer, things will be different’</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And they will.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">You died trying</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Died making a change</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sketching a new life</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking to a future that never came.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ll think of you </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">when I hear those tunes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">that connect us</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Deeper than anyone knew</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On silver stars</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">in spray paint stencilled dreams</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’ll remember you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">___________</span></div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-49171458104073988282019-06-06T22:45:00.000+01:002019-06-06T22:48:43.288+01:00Fraud<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I woke up to the same old dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Old wallets and Polaroid cameras</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Old boyfriends and family members</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cats, dogs, lizards, hamsters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fires, floods, blizzards, cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wake up from the same old dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Different boyfriends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same old me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same old hobbies</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same old junk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same old never reading a book</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let alone writing one.<br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sum of my parts is just trash</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sum of my parts is just ash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wake up with the same old dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Broken goldfish bowls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Broken wings on owls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Broken into houses</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What’s the difference?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don’t give up on your daydream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don’t give up on your night screams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wake up in the same old dreams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Souls of people I used to know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’re dead but you’re here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’re famous but you’re here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my dreams we meet once, twice again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I’ll see you in a month,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stroking a rat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Riding a cat,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Becoming a doormat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know no one wants to hear about anyone’s dream,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not anybody.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m sober, asleep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">yet high again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your pupils, my pupils,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We’re both high here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We all float down here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My heart runs away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I can’t catch it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can never quite catch it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like a mouse on a string</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it slips out of reach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like my teeth on the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like my hair changes colour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like my cats change shape and names.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nothing is grabbable</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nothing is tangible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my dreams I’m high on blame</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My brain is in a dish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a train,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thrown against a window pane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another lack of ideas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another wasted year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the dreams stay the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">_____________</span>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-52923915956940848922018-03-19T22:21:00.004+00:002018-03-19T22:22:06.516+00:00Shook<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remember that time I came to you in casualty?<br /><br />You’d had a seizure on the taxi cab floor<br /><br />That was the last time I came to support you.<br /><br />Then you supported me<br /><br />at her funeral.<br /><br />After that, we were done.<br /><br />Remember you looked surprised to see me there?<br /><br />Like I wouldn’t come.<br /><br />Like I wouldn’t have run<br /><br />to see if you were ok.<br /><br />You couldn’t even remember passing out.<br /><br />I was in bed when your friend called<br /><br />I didn’t hear right,<br /><br />Just went into panic and action<br /><br />Forgot Uber existed<br /><br />Got a black cab.<br /><br />Sixty quid. I still resent that.<br /><br />After eight years, it was like we were married<br /><br />but we never were.<br /><br />Later, I realised why.<br /><br />Remember that student nurse?<br /><br />She fucked up taking your blood<br /><br />Your heart was racing<br /><br />Like it had so many nights before<br /><br />For different reasons.<br /><br />I joked with you and calmed you down.<br /><br />Remember that Asian doctor – how young he looked?<br /><br />But it wasn’t him, young<br /><br />It was us, old.<br /><br />Was this a wake up call?<br /><br />A sign?<br /><br />Did it start to change your mind?<br /><br />I remember<br /><br />your clothes on the chair<br /><br />you in a hospital gown – like Rick<br /><br />Wires going in<br /><br />Wires coming out of your skin.<br /><br />Ok, I nicked that part.<br /><br />You probably don’t remember<br /><br />That I was wearing my fluffy jumper<br /><br />with the lovehearts on.<br /><br />I don’t wear it anymore.<br /><br />We were so tired when we got out.<br /><br />5am on those cold leather seats<br /><br />Magic on the radio<br /><br />Magic tree on the mirror.<br /><br />Thank God. Relief.<br /><br />We held hands.<br /><br />We got home.<br /><br />Now it’s just my home.<br /><br />I still remember climbing into bed that morning. <br /><br />I sometimes wonder,<br /><br />did something in your brain change then?<br /><br />Maybe that’s why everything got ruined<br /><br />Maybe it wasn’t your fault<br /><br />Or mine.<br /><br />It’s easier if I tell myself<br /><br />It wasn’t your fault<br /><br />Or mine<br /><br />It was just your brain<br /><br />shaking<br /><br />It was just that your brain got shook<br /><br />Like your body shook after<br /><br />Like everything shook after.<br /><br />It’s still shaking.<br /><br />A year has turned into two.<br /><br />I’m still shaking.<br /><br />Are you?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />_______________ </span>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-74887054639747030292017-09-27T22:48:00.000+01:002017-09-28T15:23:16.145+01:00Japanese keyboard <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we scroll back far enough,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can we be OK again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back among the lovehearts and lips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💋💗</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your voice before we met</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your voice inside my head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Emotions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Emoticons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But now you’re gone.</span></div>
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<br />lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-52716915913106239132016-12-29T21:23:00.000+00:002016-12-29T21:23:09.023+00:00Box set<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />I haven't watched a film for six months.<br /><br />I keep saving up things for us to watch <br /><br />But I can't face them alone<br /><br />I can't face outside alone<br /><br />Our private jokes without a home. <br /><br />You'll never know<br /><br />if Glenn dies under the dumpster<br /><br />(he didn't, but...) <br /><br />You'll never get to see crappy season 7<br /><br />to find out if Negan is scary. <br /><br />Well, spoiler alert, he's not. <br /><br />You never got to finish your book.<br /><br />Just kidding, you never read a book <br /><br />You could barely finish a magazine in the loo<br /><br />Without soaking it through <br /><br />with the shower head and the curtain<br /><br />not pulled over quite right.<br /><br />I miss your soggy magazines<br /><br />Complaining about overuse of shower gel <br /><br />Complaining about things I would kill or die to have again <br /><br />It felt like nothing at the time<br /><br />But it was a life. <br /><br />It was right.<br /><br />Now I'm soaking everything through<br /><br />And not in a good way. <br /><br />And our cat on the landing gone, too<br /><br />And my heart: dead, like the pair of you<br /><br />Now all that's left is cat hair, crumbs and <br /><br />Silence <br /><br />I'm still waiting for the next bit to start. <br /><br />When’s it gonna start? <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />_____</span></span>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-88815765472700328632016-09-15T14:32:00.003+01:002016-09-15T14:32:29.222+01:00Obsolete<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What’s worse than knowing I’m dying?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing the dog will outlive me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can’t even walk him today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in a month’s time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or a year’s time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you and he will go walkies and play</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you’ll call to him,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">call out his name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I’ll still be dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dog will sleep in your bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dog will lie in your arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But at least I know the dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even that dog will be dead;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the dog that outlived me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’ll be buried in the garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you’ll be alive </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breathing and laughing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with someone I’ve never even met.</span></div>
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lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-48631388723110571902016-05-21T22:28:00.002+01:002020-08-03T16:22:09.109+01:00Next door<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will remember you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The way you collected things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">like I collect things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cards and the memories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The religious keepsakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Except you believed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’d always buy you angels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A month ago, I found one I forgot to send at Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next Christmas, I’d thought. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every Easter, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking for a card with meaning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I knew it meant something to you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And you meant something to me.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you remember all the times you helped me move house?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carrying lampshades and cushions <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With your packed lunch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and your Special Brew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You’d always ask for a posh glass.<br /><br />
Lost again with mum on the way home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another tale to tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before that, were summers stretched out like decades<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crisps in the cupboard in your dining room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cutting the grass in your garden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your son was a brother to my brothers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I remember you in bright purple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your clip on earrings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with glasses before your surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was classic Margaret.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I remember your sense of humour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How fucking blunt you were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You knew your own mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You were strong and kind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With no time for self-pity.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Your husband was killed the year I was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He has been dead as long as I’ve been alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I must have reminded you.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did you know that you took us in on the worst day of my life?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You were there for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For my whole family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You never cared who was right or wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You never took a side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You were the last person on earth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We all liked.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ll drive your car, now mine, to your funeral.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still with the Virgin Mary on the dashboard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still with St Christopher tied to the lighter.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who has never believed in anything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope you got there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">__________________</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-31681236879599877082015-02-15T17:31:00.002+00:002016-05-21T22:36:38.976+01:00Now<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I remember you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">against the pink of my bed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">your eyes followed me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">like the opposite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of a sniper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">no one had ever looked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at me like that before</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you were as pure as paper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I was cynical</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">even then, with you eating me up </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with your eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I knew:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that the chemical of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lust and love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">can change and become</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a questioning of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">‘why did you put you hand on his leg?’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">‘your friend is coming between us.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">________________________</span><br />
<br />lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-86339034571160932852014-11-19T20:31:00.002+00:002015-02-15T17:32:16.794+00:00A written rap battle <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You took my skeleton hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">down streets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where red and pink lights <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had twinkled days before <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now naked buildings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shivered in the cold <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but my hand was warm in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your gloved embrace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in your room <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you told me a story <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of colours like ice, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nazi dictators <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a place where everyone could <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">read each other’s thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then you looked at me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I knew. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You promised me tiles to build <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a safe place to hide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You showed me another way, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A way to be free like you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my dreams <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we were covered in snow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tiles painted with ravens <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cracked like mirrors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when I woke <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you were laughing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everything around you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was pink <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and orange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I was yours.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">______________________</span></div>
lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-25634225436141522112014-02-03T21:42:00.001+00:002014-02-03T21:42:41.574+00:00Lunch<div class="MsoNormal">
Before…</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
his pupils were massive<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as he knelt between <o:p></o:p></div>
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my legs,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As we said<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
‘no we shouldn’t’<o:p></o:p></div>
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but of course, we did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Afterwards, <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
he looked like<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
he’d just been told<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
someone had died.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He looked like a victim.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
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Or was that me? <span style="color: #548dd4;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-61661417543919453392013-01-25T14:09:00.001+00:002013-01-25T14:12:25.073+00:00Back to the old house<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am transported there<br />My heart and head<br />Is where my home is<br />Nothing has changed, everything has changed. <br />The shops shrunken and shabby and stuck<br />I have moved on but they remained forever<br />The kids on the street meaner, nastier, stupider<br />Or am I just getting older?<br />And those words<br />That spelt the name of the street<br />That I lived in for eighteen years<br />Once as important as my own name<br />Now unfamiliar.<br />I walk walk walked<br />Past the dead end alley<br />And the berries crushed </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into the ground </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like brains<br />As a child<br />I tried to avoid them<br />But now<br />The street is a photograph<br />And I am a giant<br />So I step and step and step.<br />Finally I reach you<br />My heart, my mother, my father,<br />My brothers and lost best friends.<br />Home. <br />It could have been then<br />The cat skitters by<br />Crying, left behind.<br />It feels like you were my lover.<br />Behind my doors and windows<br />A new family lived<br />The plaque, ‘Roseland’, prised from the wall<br />I see me within you<br />Ghosts<br />My dad throwing my mum out of the door<br />My brother punching a hole in the wall<br />I lost my first tooth<br />My glasses, my braces<br />My virginity<br />And my mother between these walls.<br />Inside<br />We were still inside<br />The five of us inside<br />The golden lion knocker on the door<br />I remember a time <br />When I wasn’t allowed to cross this road<br />Was I ever that small?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">_______________</span><br />
<br />lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-54322779312309161422012-12-12T20:35:00.000+00:002016-05-21T22:37:41.198+01:00Threesome<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">You should listen to your cat</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">when you get home tonight</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">as it follows you </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">to the kitchen</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">as it followed us</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">up the stairs.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It will watch you squeeze out
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">food from a pouch</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Impassive.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Like it watched us</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">fuck on your bed</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Impassive.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your cat keeps my secret.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Afterwards</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I used your perfume</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">your brush and</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">your shower.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I stroked your cat and he purred.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I want that cat to </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">tell you</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">what it knows. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I will make it talk. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-72215467620151153962012-11-27T10:26:00.000+00:002012-11-27T10:29:19.364+00:00Verdana<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nights we spent spewing words<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying to
impress<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You were my
Verdana <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before we
even met.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-71512363450252697282012-10-24T11:36:00.001+01:002012-10-24T11:44:03.779+01:00Studio<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My new life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">makes me wonder<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what the old life was for?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">why I hung around<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the face of such wrongness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when it was so easy to leave<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it took a month<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the end<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think of you now<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but if I stay up all night<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sometimes it hurts<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not because I miss you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but because </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">yet </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">another </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">bit of my life</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-56758231506801243472012-09-30T18:08:00.001+01:002012-09-30T18:08:36.880+01:00Barking<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
didn’t realise how many words</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
were for crazy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until
you went there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loco,
nuts, bonkers, mad<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">They
all sound like a joke<span style="color: #666666;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">–</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but
what you did was<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Horror<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not
comedy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
thought of asking your sister<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to
take you the new <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright
Eyes CD<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But
god knows if you still like them<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or
who you are right now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is
your real self; your real mind<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hiding
somewhere?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can
we unearth you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
feels like you’re dead.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you’re
just out to lunch.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-24597179473353316952012-09-16T18:07:00.000+01:002012-09-16T18:10:32.338+01:00 Excerpt/ Reflection<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You were part of my history</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a sticker on a timeline<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forever seventeen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">drenched in mythology<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ten years later<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">developed and dated<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thawed out and dreamless<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your ageing ages me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You reside<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inside my head<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in a box<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with all the others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ll take you out and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">glorify you periodically<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but only if you stay<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confined and asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And don’t forget:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the story is all mine<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What you remember different;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">didn’t happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You weren’t meant<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to turn out like this,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I’m ashamed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because neither was I.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">___________________________________</span></span></div>
lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-50271461266096269262012-08-02T16:02:00.001+01:002012-08-02T16:02:45.766+01:00Prize<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The inflatable flower</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">that you won for me</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the night we met</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">still sits on the floor in the bedroom</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">filled with air from your lungs</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">How can that thin red plastic</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">hold you <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">–</span> even now</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">eight years on</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and six months since</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your breath ran out<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">forever.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I cracked <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and finally pried <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the stopper open</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sucked you up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and breathed for the both of us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Afterwards, the flower lay </span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">crippled on the floor</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and I wished I'd waited</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">another day, another month</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">another year.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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________________lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-89889755989370915512012-06-05T13:05:00.000+01:002012-06-05T13:05:41.332+01:00Extol<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was wrong</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">about falling in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">love being about<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And fitting together <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is one thing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I’ve never ‘not’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fitted <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with a lover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All people fit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you hammer hard<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">enough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So love isn’t that, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">either.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our love is about<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">light up deities, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">pop gods <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">___________________________________</span></div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-44228530765436653982012-05-03T12:07:00.001+01:002012-05-03T12:07:21.837+01:00Horror film<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
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<br /></div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-71393462181241682052012-03-01T19:16:00.000+00:002012-03-01T19:16:07.553+00:00Gulls<span style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Two years </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we kept</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">two stones</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">as we stitched </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and laced our dream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Two stones from </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Brighton beach.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We pictured</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">drives along the coast,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">healthy living</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and a little life</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">waiting for us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">when we got back home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We got salt,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">that much we got.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We filled up buckets</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">but not with our hands.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now we ride back to London</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Not defeated.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I can still see us</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">sitting in deckchairs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I can still see the sea from here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">_____________________ </span></div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-78330978029821245162012-02-06T20:49:00.000+00:002012-02-06T20:49:50.234+00:00Better off<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After you beat her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(not straight after, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but soon after)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mum left<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me with you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She repeated <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a prayer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how you would never <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hurt me<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">lay a finger on me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was safe with you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You came via electro mail</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And gave</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the crushing drudge</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of twenty four</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">after twenty four </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">after twenty four</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">some punctuation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before you </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">chasing a hearto</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">mainlining sweets</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of both kinds</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’m still part</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">slow motion suicide<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But laughing</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Let’s cuckold old age</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who wants to live in bungalows</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">via panic buttons </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">anyway.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-83974515135146182652011-12-09T10:35:00.000+00:002011-12-09T10:35:18.099+00:00Marks<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two little bruises</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">give you away</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one on my right wrist</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one on my left.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imprints of your thumbs</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as you held me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like I was the only thing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">keeping you afloat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now just smudges, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like newspaper print</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but the stain of you</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lingers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I touch them </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to remind myself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for one moment</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was needed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I watch them </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yellow </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into the pink of my skin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like leaves </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rotten</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div>lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-83956464200944071632011-11-24T13:03:00.000+00:002011-11-24T13:03:20.267+00:00Death wish<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was terminally ill</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so I could quit work </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forever, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">guilt-free.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We could sit</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on the bed and </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">play board games</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you’d make my dinner</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when you weren’t here</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could read magazines,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">write a diary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and watch trash TV. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you’d have to be nice,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if you liked it or not</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever I said,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’d agree.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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____________________lightupvirginmaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807295365413799610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5988494255301944341.post-60562967521691404252011-10-26T19:14:00.000+01:002011-10-26T19:14:44.944+01:00It is what it is<div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Everything happens for a reason</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Except rape and earthquakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What goes around comes around<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unless you get away with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Unless it’s a stroke.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tomorrow’s another day<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But not if you die in your sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Karma’s a bitch<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No, karma’s a fairy story<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rich boys get off murder raps<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Babies die the day they’re born<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Or before.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oh well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Time heals all wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s just sometimes <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">you have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">wait<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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