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wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22
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TEXAS (it's all big)

0 posted 1999-07-11 02:53 AM


My Methuselah's face
Dripping formaldehyde
And I can't leave this place
Until your satisfied

I'll never put much weight
Into this phenomenon
Just so you can create
Sure that you want me gone

Your desperate I live
I only live to die
And I cannot forgive
Not getting a try

Broken in stitches
Among this sadness
Burning the witches
Prolongs the madness

You feel the tissue
It's futility’s scar
Making you wish you
Hadn't taken so far

A lonely hearts dream
You can't hope to replace
One day you'll wake up
With Methuselah's face



[This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (edited 07-11-99).]

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DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396

1 posted 1999-07-11 04:20 AM


Great one, Walt. Keep reaching for the Darkness.

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I am not responsible for how you choose to interpret what I say.
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~one voice~
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since 1999-07-08
Posts 664
Billings, MT USA
2 posted 1999-07-11 04:44 AM


I love your style, walt! These dark ones always inspire me!

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~one voice~

For Myself, I live,
Live intensely and am fed by life,
and my value, whatever it be, is in my own kind of expression of that. *Henry James

brockglaze
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since 1999-07-13
Posts 21
Muncie,Indiana,USA
3 posted 1999-07-16 11:17 AM


Nice, very nice, it makes you think!

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Brock J. Glaze

Gentle Soul
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since 1999-07-12
Posts 273
Vinton,Ohio USA
4 posted 1999-07-16 11:30 AM


I like it! I wish I could develope a flow like that

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Gënt£ë¤§°û£



quote99
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since 1999-07-14
Posts 17
US
5 posted 1999-07-16 11:35 AM


Am I crazy or is this poem way off in the meter and rhyme?

"Your desperate I live
I only live to die
And I cannot forgive
Not getting a try"

Can you explain what this means? I don't get it!!!!

wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870
TEXAS (it's all big)
6 posted 1999-07-16 11:44 AM


yes i have been guilty of bad meter here lately to this i apologize and will work diligently to correct thank you for the critique
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