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#1831voted by our readers
By Jordi2112 PLATINUM
Gardner, Kansas

We always got McDonald’s cheeseburgers When we were too lazy to make dinner We’d pile up in that old minivan  Getting no vegetables, like winners We’d dr...
Jordi2112 PLATINUM, Gardner, Kansas
29 articles 6 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe


#1832 Poetry
By Lydiaq ELITE
Somonauk, Illinois
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
179 articles 54 photos 1026 comments

Favorite Quote:
The universe must be a teenage girl. So much darkness, so many stars.
--me

#1833 Poetry
By Hoodie-Girl BRONZE
Hamden, Connecticut
Hoodie-Girl BRONZE, Hamden, Connecticut
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#1834 Poetry
By est16 ELITE
Hewitt, Texas
est16 ELITE, Hewitt, Texas
104 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#1835 Poetry
By Afra ELITE
Kandy, Other
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
103 articles 7 photos 1824 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A writer must never be short of ideas."
-Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

FlightOfPiscine PLATINUM, Plano, Texas
35 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Irony [is] the song of a prisoner who's come to love his cage" - David Foster Wallace

#1837 Poetry
By Anonymous
#1838 Poetry
By this_unflower PLATINUM
Lincoln, Rhode Island
this_unflower PLATINUM, Lincoln, Rhode Island
46 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
i will never understand
why you held me
if you were afraid of warmth

you should have known
i was fire

- Rupi Kaur , the sun and her flowers

#1839 Poetry
By imhopp BRONZE
Chicago, Illinois
imhopp BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#1840 Poetry
Giuliawrites GOLD, Muscat, Other
14 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
»"Everything that happens, you write it," he said.
"Everything I write happens" was the answer. »
The Neverending story,
Michael Ende