Stories tagged “free”
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Paint the Sky
Slow-motion Colors Lovers Let’s go be lovers, in a foreign country. Let’s forget that we ever had expectations, or obligations. Let’s be irresponsible and irrational, let’s forget about things like correct spelling and presentab...
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am rating
They get the short end of the stick. They get shafted. They get the raw end of the deal. They take it on the chin. They take a licking and keep on ticking. They bend over backwards. They draw the short straw-um, i mean they ward the shorts warts.
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A Complete Peace
It was sunny; not the type of day that you would expect something to happen. What’s the line again? “The sun was shining happily, shining with all his might”. The tree branches kissed the pond gracefully as we peeled off our socks an...
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Free Garlic Bread
On the way to my next client, I stop to buy a pizza at Pinocio’s. I search with my hands for my wallet, and then remember I’m low on change. “What will it be?” the owner questions me, eyeing my scythe with raised and crazed eyeb...
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White Tank Top in A Red Pickup Truck
“Well it looks like it’s just you and me kiddo,” he smiled as they were the only two people of the youth group that had gone to Church that morning, “What cha wanna do?” “Well I’m gonna change outta these stuf...
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Learning to Fall
Let go, He says to me, Just let go. Free yourself. There is nothing, nothing left. Empty your mind and let everything go. Scorch your fields of the strawberries and apples. Take the change from your pocket And give it to the world. Throw away the cloth...
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Free From Life and Sin
“You got my money, boy?” Hands outstretched, Paul turned to face the question, no answer but a faint smile. He regarded the bloated bear of a man and felt nothing. More rightly, he felt the great upwelling of anger and resentment for the pa...
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Freestyle
Green gasoline Flame consumer Sizzle lean steamer Smoke plume fumer Look up above, crazy loon, I simply love lunar moon dust Puffs of perfume and donuts, clutz, Microphonettes and micro-pho-homies Imagination like midgets side saddling ponies
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Chasing Hill
To anyone else, this is a dangerous game. With every leap, every maneuver, the probability of our lives ending in a gruesome death increases. I’m following Alice, who in turn, is running down Hill. We’ve been practicing this run for month...
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Realities
The trigger clown, In the bitter glow Of a painted frown, Feels the undertow Pull him down Where bodies freeze Underground. Confined, although, There’s no Boundaries, His mind Travels with the souls he sees— Unwinding the restraints of real...
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Listen to Your Feet
There is no sound other than the far away drone of late night traffic and the rhythm of my own body. My footfalls set an easy but fast pace for my breath to follow. With each padded step, I grow farther and farther away from this world. I run barefoot ...
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The Truth Is
The truth is I’m not afraid to die It’s actually more of a comfort After life here it seems like a better alternative. The truth is It’s not that I don’t want to live It’s that I don’t want to live now In this system. The truth is The rea...
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Meditation
Unconfined— his mind climbs with the souls of his ancestry— completely free— having unwound the restraints of reality— It’s here he finds how he’s part of time— a timeline that binds him to the Earth and far beyond...
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The Girl in the Corner.
Why don’t you love her, the girl in the corner? She really needs your love. Watch her in silence, curled up in the corner, waiting for a sign from above. She’s always alone, alone in the corner. Her smile gives away her disguise. It’s...