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Alicat
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since 1999-05-23
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0 posted 2003-12-21 01:16 PM


When I hit the floor I want to tell you
I want more and I want to tell you
That I'm drowning in the perspiration
From the glass's condensation
Sitting on the cork coaster up there
Up there by eye stare to eye stare
From me to you and you to it
And it to me without you and it
Here, here where the carpet stains
Stained by me, me just here, here
There where the glass sweats and grins
Grins with mundanity, smug civility
And
Through
It
I
See
You simper, sneer, and snidely depart
After knocking over both me
And the cork coastered sweating glass
With your one-barreled promise
Never

Alicat
12-21-03

© Copyright 2003 Alastair Adamson - All Rights Reserved
Dark Angel
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Posts 10095

1 posted 2003-12-21 05:14 PM


ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

I've missed reading you Alicat.

Keeping this one.

Maree

fate is not just
whose cooking  smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)


Mad_Hatter
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2 posted 2003-12-21 06:19 PM


Nicely done, I enjoyed it alot.
Sunshine
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3 posted 2003-12-21 06:49 PM



Zing!
Excellent, Ali!

Alicat
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4 posted 2003-12-22 04:10 PM


Thanks guys!

Not sure where this one came from, but there it was, ready to be written whether I willed it or not.

coyote
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5 posted 2003-12-25 03:21 PM


Will some more of these, m'friend.
Excellent.....

CB 8)

River
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6 posted 2003-12-25 04:00 PM


hey, this was very kool, powerful, and i liked how you slowed down some of the words to single  lines, I've done that a few times, it's pretty kool, lol. again, this is solid, very nice. loved it.

        - River

Love hurts as bad as it feels good.

wintertao
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7 posted 2003-12-25 09:29 PM


very nice
serenity blaze
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8 posted 2004-10-16 11:41 PM


*cause you KNOW I was here*


Hollow_Emptiness
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since 2004-02-01
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9 posted 2004-10-18 02:04 AM


Nice....

Hollow.
Courtney.

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. - Gary Jules, Mad World.

darkness_witch
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since 2003-12-03
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Underneath
10 posted 2004-10-18 03:06 AM


wow
brilliant!

love and empathy
darkness

nirvana means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world.

serenity blaze
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11 posted 2004-10-18 03:15 AM


when I wake upon the floor
fingers greeding need for more
wishing water in the glass
that held the bile of my relapse
dreading movement of the head
thinking I am live and dead
spitting fur far from the tongue
as I am old and pleading young
mistakes
within a chalice held
loosely in the hand.



Hope you don't mind too much.

I knew where this came from

and felt compelled to share.




Ladycat
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12 posted 2004-10-18 04:41 PM


You don't know where that cam from... What are you talking about? You have a world that is stored in your head for all the things that you write. I really think that there is a little alien in there doing all the writing for you and you just don't want to share with the rest of us.

Anyway, I enjoyed the piece. Though I had to read it again since I seemed to have lost the feeling half way through it, but once I got that I loved it.

Thank you for the read.

Love,
Ladycat

"Everything changes, everything stays the same."-Bill Austin

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02
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New York
13 posted 2004-10-18 07:23 PM


Good Lord, Ali . . . one day I only hope to have half of your insight.
green_itchy_stuff
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New Caney, Tx
14 posted 2004-10-19 01:45 AM


Wow that was actually kinda fun to read.  It has a since of humor all its own, or it could be mad...  lol
Nice write.

-GIS

He has made everything beautiful in its own time.  -Ecclesiastes 3:11

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15 posted 2004-10-19 03:41 AM


YES!

now thats
exactly
what i like to read!!!

*applause*

eor
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16 posted 2004-10-19 12:59 PM


"That I'm drowning in the perspiration
From the glass's condensation
Sitting on the cork coaster up there
Up there by eye stare to eye stare"

these lines set the rythem of the poem, i wouls almost like to see each line of the poem have this same consistancey...these lines really nail it on the head everything about this poem starts with these lines, which is also why i thnk your poem starts here.  also i dont know if 'and' 'through' 'it' 'i' 'see' all deserve their own lines (but im kinda werid about things like that)...but good write i wnjoyed reading this very much

Awake through motion with curiosity to curtain your first move
Over arms length they'll break protocol
Jealous envy for the youngest one

Copperbell
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Posts 956

17 posted 2004-10-19 09:02 PM


too sad I knew someone who lived this - when I read this I can see her world and it hurts because shes dead. She died from her world - and left my cousins without a mother.  aarg its so frustrating.
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