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breAk Down
By: Dorothy Marie on 10/22/2001; 1:50 PM


A stone wall
High and Sturdy
Unsupported
laughed at
stones thrown at
Clothed with Graffiti
Other people's ideas
Cemented with emotions
Rigid emotions
proper emotions
Decaying emotions
Thinking
it would feel good
to fall down
Allowing
Real emotions
Warm Acid emotions
to eat through
Thinking
it would feel good
to collapse
Allowing itself
to break down
on the sidewalk
the Sturdy
Trampled
Sidewalk

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RE: breAk Down
By: PJ Caroon on 3/2/2001; 2:29 PM

Dorothy has a shiny purple shirt made out of HUMAN FLESH!
O_o
-PJ

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RE: breAk Down
By: Dorothy Marie on 3/2/2001; 11:21 PM

It's periwinkle.

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RE: breAk Down
By: PJ Caroon on 3/2/2001; 11:32 PM

Ah... so it is... And very soft too, for human flesh. My apologies. To guys, purple (periwinkle), is purple. :P

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RE: breAk Down
By: Dorothy Marie on 3/2/2001; 11:38 PM

so are we speaking through voices, now? if we are, we must speak in code moogie ooogie lulu spoooty puut. gaaaaaaaaaaaaalen. dillo.

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RE: breAk Down
By: Evan on 4/7/2001; 1:51 PM

Yay! Another good poem for me to read. I really liked this one. It seems to be metaphor for the constraints that society places upon us (I don't see what's wrong with leaving a pencil in my nose!)but of course the reader often gets an impression different from what the writer intends. My English teachers keep reading way too much into my stories and finding hidden meaning where none was intended, but the what the reader thinks it is is often more important to the reader than what the author thinks. Arghh I'm rambling. Everything I think makes me think of something else and I start kind of rambling and then I forget what I was talking about.........................Uhh anyway good uhhh Poem Dorothy.

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RE: breAk Down
By: Chie Theresa Fujioka on 4/16/2001; 1:22 PM

what the reader sees in the writing is a reflection of his/her own worries and problems. Which is imporatnt because it creates a feeling of empathy etc.

this also means that if a teacher reads a lot into it... hehe

and if they dont like it, theyve probably never seen whatever it was in that light.

writing is the mirror by which we shine light on others.

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