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by Yipee Skip

Created on: October 30, 2007

Rachael, be awake.
Be a character that I made
in tennis shoes stained
with red brown dirt
and wear your heart at your feet
until I tell you to scoop it up neat
in a plastic bucket complete
with a fat sponge for washing the T-bird.
Come awake and be.
Rachael. Speak.
For me?

My back aches and these shoes pinch.
This shirt chokes me under the arms.
I can't lift them an inch.

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by Yipee Skip

Rachael, be awake.
Be a character that I made
in tennis shoes stained
with red brown dirt
and wear your heart at your feet
until
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by Adam Smith

They crowd my mind in droves

And the next minute they are gone

It could be anything that brings them about

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