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roxane
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0 posted 1999-09-22 12:40 PM


i never call myself pretty
though i try not to be petty
i don't even stand up straight
though i know just what i hate
my personality is permanent ink
i refuse to clean up what i think
i would like to stain the interior
of single soul who feels superior
if i should fail, i fail alone
fake and generic i don't condone
be myself, if hated by the loved
speak instead of acting when shoved
be sarcastic be dry be even witty
never a person shall call me pretty
and if i die defending an ideal
at least i died with dignity and zeal
and if i die by my own hand
my body is my earth, i can give up the land
for a better place maybe i'll go there
and if the whole populace contradicts i won't care
heaven or hell, by someone i will be received
"here is a nothing with something daring achieved"

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"Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon or stay too long in such a place as this." Charles Dickens


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