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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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on May. 5 2010 at 6:11 pm
xoacashaxo PLATINUM, Danvers, Massachusetts
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dont judge a book by its cover

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you are amazing you have a gift and you just inspired me to be as good a writer as u
Xblue_raspberryX SILVER said...
on May. 5 2010 at 5:24 pm
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oh wow that is beautiful. so in depth in the soul. so deep
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Nice first two lines; so origional.
kread18 DIAMOND said...
on May. 5 2010 at 4:33 pm
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this is so bizarrely perfect... but why didn't you post the rest of it?
Brokenlover GOLD said...
on May. 5 2010 at 2:12 pm
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This is absolutely amazing!

Don't stop writing, you have a great gift.

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This is Wonderful i love this so much i wish i could rite lke that but i still rite but its not this good
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this is wonderful! i have been in some pretty screwed up reationships as well...i dont even know you and i respect you for this work.
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You seem to overthink poetry and take it too literally.
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That was amazing. I know exactly how you feel. That almost made me cry.
cotigwrites said...
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wow...this is truely amazing.
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This could appear in the New Yorker.
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WOW. There are not enough words for how beautiful this poem is. I love it.
j.wetherbottom said...
on Apr. 13 2010 at 8:21 pm
Yes, this poem reminds me of the time I spent in the cloud forests of Thailand searching out the reclusive yellow-freckled jackalope. Your use of the word 'curling' is evocative of the winter game, I assume, and is appropriate for the innate irony and inanity of the piece, considering that it the temperature remains an agreeable 30 degrees across South East Asia whilst Britain crystallizes over. Indoubitably.
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I really love this poem!! the imagery is fantastic, you're very talented!!
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 this is amazing (: you are so talented.
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Wow. This is amazing. the power and feeling behind it it is absolutly moving. I love it. and i can totally symphasize with what it is saying.
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wow, i really loved the imagery you used! you're really talented!
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Really great! You can definitely feel the emotions as you write them. Sometimes words are better than pictures, and that proclaims it true. A real piece of art.
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amazing imagery. very servere and emotional. i could feel the anger. very beautiful!
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Great usage of imagery. You write straight from the heart and the result is just beautiful!!