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My name is Christopher Frederic Lapinel. I recently graduated with an MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews University in Scotland. Currently I live in New York City and travel about the world whenever I get the chance. Whatever else you might need to

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: The experience of pain in life: 5 of 16

'Love Will Burn You Up' Sometimes we are given what we ask for. Sometimes it is more than we bargained for. All the time I was working at the liquor shop I could feel myself dying by degrees. Everything in my mind was rotting, decaying. My body was going this way too. My emotions were still running riot, just as vivid and co...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Depression: 226 of 630

'Shaking Off the Oppressive Gloom' On dark, lonely nights when all your thoughts freeze your fingers and toes. When your heart jitters in your chest and all seems like a huge mistake, like a wrong turn taken on a misbegotten road, then just remember this: it is all, always, a matter of perspective. Your heart may not instant...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Harmony: 9 of 24

'A Hymn to Selene' the whole night was worth it it's nearly dawn I've stood the whole night long the whole night was worth it now to stand beneath the crescent moon and the sharp blue sky like shipwrecked Odysseus on an LIRR platform the murmurs of fellow voyagers, other heroes surround me is this one Aeneas? or that one Fin...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Appreciating the little things in life: 64 of 141

On Chilhowie Current mood: amused Category: Travel and Places 'Chilhowie, Va.' I was driving down Interstate 81 in Virginia, on my way to California. The sun had only set maybe a couple hours before, maybe less. It had already felt like an eternity. It was only the second day of my trip and that felt like an eternity too. I ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Appreciate your life: 26 of 51

'On Traveling in the New Mexico Desert' Come sit with me awhile- I'm shivering with cold and I think that I done wrong. My youth is dying in the New Mexico desert and I need a steadying hand to calm it on its way. Oh it's cold, so cold- touch its hands, it's alright, I swear, he don't feel a thing. I've sat vigil all night, ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Finding yourself: 135 of 235

'To Wish' A man reached out his fingers poking the stars, but boy was he surprised when the stars reaching down poked him back.
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Desperation: 2 of 3

'Los Angeles, or the Affects of Too Many Palms on the Smog' It is kind of overcast today. Yet it's only 9:32 A.M. and chances are the smog will clear before noon. I had been walking down Montana Avenue, talking on my mobile with my attorney in New York. I was saying how much I missed her toothless face (I believe those were ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Human emotions: 10 of 13

'The Great Ocean Road: February 25th, 2008' M. is taking me to the town of Apollo Bay. It's her favorite place; she dreams of having a farmhouse just outside the town one day. M. and I are cruising along the Great Ocean Road in a big, comfy car we've borrowed. There's some cloud cover, but the sun is bright and so is the blu...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Confused by love: 201 of 254

'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' Gone down into shade, just to rest awhile nothing more don't disturb me, don't stand over nor stare at me I'm fine, I've just gone down to rest awhile leave me be the knots in my back, the withering of my proud legs the infection creeping through my body is the sour culmination of having ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Freedom: 228 of 268

'Play With Me?' Do you got a beat? (I think I got a beat) Yeah I got a beat (do you got a beat?) All day thumps the beat all night slips the beat Hup hup hup hup hup ha hup hup hup hup hup ha Can you stick it? ('cause I can stick it) Yeah I can stick it (never gonna let you get away) Hup hup hup hup hup ha!