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Inevitable loss
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Inevitable loss |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore 
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Accidentally, we saw each other We smiled, gave obligatory waves and returned to our respective tasks I tried to count my toe hairs You resumed your conversation with your friend We walked home together before Do you recall the time I lied to your dad about your english grade? You looked at me with an expression I couldn't quite figure out-- was it gratitude or amazement? There should be some official etiquette that calls for us to speak to our long-lost friend for fifteen minutes when we chance upon each other We will swap gossip about former friends, reveal our present lives a little, maybe even relive those good old days and laugh I'm sorry I didn't realise you had chicken pox and were absent for two weeks I'm sorry I stood aside as the flame in our friendship gradually extinguished We are like grown-up puppies given up to different homes, soon after birth Did we ever function as a pair of chopsticks? I never failed to call you before school reopened so that I could "transfer" answers to my undone homework I need those now |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Love the bit about the chopsticks. She said burn ... together. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
"I tried to count my toe hairs" I'm wondering where this line came from faterider. . . does one count the hairs on their toes as a regular thing??? but, it lends itself nicely to the spirit of the poem. . . which is a walk into the mind of one that's stopped hearing. . . --------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
thank you, bsquirrel for your comment... Sven, well, i often wonder if someday i would be bored enough to actually count my toe hairs...so far, i am sufficiently appalled at this thought, so this hasn't happened yet..but i thought it was a cool thing to note down...thanks for your comment..  |
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