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howpeculiar
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since 2000-12-12
Posts 56


0 posted 2001-08-06 09:55 PM


My heart fulgurates invectives
They swell,
  blister,
burst open in static
and the
vapors
rise, wet with appetite,
burning upwards --
like an acid that saddens.

effluvia concaves my chest as it heaves,
shoves my neck in sharp angle, head back,
lips spread in silent scream
as the fumes

  brush

   searing,

until I am more raw pain
than beating flesh

Screeches of volatilization
lost as my tongue grips at their
cauterizing haze

Do I ache more from their torment,
or the revocation of my perspicuity?

Inside,
the white sparks incinerate
Perfect elucidation:
palpable,
and branded to my heart

But when I divide my lips
to whisper or howl
to

name

I only breathe out a cloud of ashes
and choke, trembling.

[This message has been edited by howpeculiar (edited 08-07-2001).]

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Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17
Posts 2364
east coast
1 posted 2001-08-08 09:26 AM


Wow!

~Tier

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

2 posted 2001-08-08 04:34 PM


Okay...ya got me with effluvia...what da heck???? and I like to think I have a pretty fair vocabulary too...effluvia...hmmm...(serenity considers looking it up, but NAH....LET THERE BE SOME MYSTERY TO LIFE!!!)

Intense as always...actually gave me a feeling of suffocation. Awesome, hp!!! effluvia or no...

howpeculiar
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since 2000-12-12
Posts 56

3 posted 2001-08-08 10:15 PM


Tier, I’ve said before that those little one word replies sometimes speak with a strength that rushes of words often defy: THANK YOU!  

...~hurtles over laundry baskets, two cats, the dog and a chair (knocking down a lamp in the process) and tackles K in a bearhug~ “HI!!!”

  SO here's the deal: my comp died, I had to wait for the reformatting disk and THEN for the reinstall, and THEN for all kinds of software, etc, and THEN for internet service (which isn't compatible with my e-mail account and so I had go back to Yahoo! bleh) and THEN for emotional catastrophe to settle, and THEN…
… my mouse broke.

So, I'm at a friend’s house now waiting for the day when I can afford a new foot pedal. Crimminey.
I’ve had to resort to writing in a NOTEBOOK, with like, pens and paper and stuff…*gasp*!

(And don‘t be dissin’ my effluvia…)

p.s. thanks, you; suffocation ( married to frustration) is exactly what you should be feeling.

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

4 posted 2001-08-10 09:59 PM


Please write. I miss you terribly.  
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