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Vitality MAG

June 4, 2016
By ch0c0lat3b3ar GOLD, Saginaw, Michigan
ch0c0lat3b3ar GOLD, Saginaw, Michigan
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There's a kindness under every gunshot.

A corporal sin
sleeping under the tongue
of every clean cut preacher.

I once saw Eden
in a bowl of fruity pebbles.
Each flake built a vibrant
island on my spoon.
They colored the milk
with a synthetic rainbow.
I swallowed it with the
infinity in my stomach.

Something's growing here,
clawing at my lungs,
breaking ribs,
pushing its way
up my throat.

I swallow hard,
take a breath,
Hold it.



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SeeGSHang GOLD said...
on Jun. 13 2016 at 10:33 pm
SeeGSHang GOLD, Sterling Heights, Michigan
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Oh, my. This piece rendered me speechless.

on Jun. 13 2016 at 6:21 pm
ambivalent SILVER, West Bend, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. [sylvia plath]

This is amazing. Never stop writing! I can't stop rereading this...

on Jun. 13 2016 at 3:53 pm
JMCALLINI BRONZE, Wayland, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say" ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

The imagery is beautiful in this piece!!!!