![WHAT A NEW PINK PEARL ERASER ® MEANS TO ME](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/30682500-1202260416.jpg) |
I've sworn off holidays.
The treat's the trick.
Renewed resolve caves in
with each excuse,
From racing year to year,
I..
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![WASHING PATROKLOS](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/19973800-1202260570.jpg) |
This isn't right. This isn't how it was
To be. Oh Cousin! Years ago when we
Shared jug and javelin, hammock, jerkin, harp
And ..
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![WANTED](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/11178500-1202260614.jpg) |
One Higher Power,
understanding, kind,
all knowing, patient, wise,
forgiving, near, compassionate,
attentive to mankind.
m..
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![WAITING FOR A REFILL ON CHRISTMAS EVE](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/37128700-1202260646.jpg) |
Who lives the candied lives
of greeting cards?
Old Santa's just the first
of many lies.
Who dare resists
when every ..
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![Vast kingdoms once did span this shrinking sphere](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/95519800-1202260677.jpg) |
Vast kingdoms once
did span this shrinking sphere.
One monarch bold
a million men could rule.
To teach the dumb,
protect th..
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![TWO LEGS OR THREE, IT'S ALL ABOUT ME](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/71532400-1202260726.jpg) |
Each night in dreams
I face a knight or snake.
I seek a maiden, fair
or hermit, kind.
I fly or fall or flee before I wa..
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![TRASH OR TREASURE?](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/02754000-1202260767.jpg) |
A string of buttons
(but for what?),
a cord, a pen (no point)
a jig-saw puzzle piece,
impossible to chuck,
in..
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![TRAPPED IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE RIDE](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/42754400-1202260812.jpg) |
The speeding carts
in darkness lunge and squeal,
(Eyes glow then fade)
down through a dragon's jaw,
past bats and skulls.
Kid..
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![TOYING WITH YOU](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/51188800-1202260854.jpg) |
First ears:
I would like two.
One either side,
I'm not a cubist.
Eyes:
the same as mine
Though others have thei..
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![TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS](https://writerscafe.s3.amazonaws.com/stories/thumbs/63057100-1202260886.jpg) |
In your dismay you cried,
"Look, I've been bit!"
"You play with serpents.
You, the charmer charmed."
Distressed y..
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