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Your Heart Was My Home Until You Handed Me an Eviction Notice MAG

November 15, 2008
By amanda.bower SILVER, Stacy, Minnesota
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maybe i know that you'll crave my secure arms someday, but i'll have come across someone who wasn't afraid. and that's why i can't let go.

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I removed the layers of blankets from my aching bones
to excavate the secrets that were held together by saliva
in papier-mâché envelopes, only to chew on disappointments
and lie on shards of fragile stained glass that tampered with my flaws,
instead of putting me back together with multicolored duct tape
so gray was only found inside of my body.

I wrung the tears from your sweatshirt and decided it was time
to give it back to you, in exchange for my serpent heart

[barely beating,

barely breathing];
instead of curling inside your stomach and making you
nearly as ill as I had become, just by drinking venomous nectar
and digesting fireflies so a small portion of me would feel alive,
I climbed over your picket fence and let you recline my eyes
in another awkward position to the point where I only chain-smoked
the main exhibits of your aesthetic proportions and declined
every deficiency of the person you truly are,


i. blunt

© Francesca Y., Robbinsdale, MN

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This is so well written! Your words are so descriptive and this is so haunting and epic! I love it! Keep on writing! :)
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suicide right?
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this is..wow. amazing. keep on writing! please!
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This is sad but very very good, You NEED to keep on writing. It would be a waste to not show this talent to the world.
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I'm truly speechless. I love your style.
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amazing:) it was well written:)
loveyagolden said...
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loved it. its so real in a descripted way that explains in away that even the words in it doesn't say
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This is beautifully done, sad but beautiful
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The very reason free verse poetry was created :]
L-Buddah said...
on May. 30 2011 at 1:59 pm
 OMgee ! Dhiz iz truely incredible ! Yu have talent !
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woah. enough said.
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Great. But very sad, I hope, if this is how you really feel, that you feel better soon.
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I love the style and format of your poem. It reminds me a little of e. e. cummings (my favorite poet). Very beautiful!
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OMG!! i love it im jealuos for your writing talent keep writing !!!! 
Faey101 said...
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Impressive piece of art. Very descriptive vocab! I really enjoyed reading it!
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Your poems are so abstract. 
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great work dude!
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This is really good. I can definatly tell you wrote this from your heart. Goog Job. I also wanted to say this peaice makes me feel very depressed. It makes me want to cry.
Nighthawk said...
on Mar. 31 2011 at 8:56 am
This poem is VERY descriptive, LOVED this poem, almost wants to make me cry. Well done:))