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alexfenris
Over 90 days ago

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"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its colour." - W. S. Merwin All my eccentricities can be traced back to that thread.

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I read more than I write, probably because I'm generally a stickler for quality in both. Also, I'm drawn to literary work that isn't just crafted, but inspired. Or at least crafted so well that it looks inspired.
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December 26, 2012

Wrote this yesterday. I'm working on my first book of poems, and this'll probably end up in it.

5 days ago, the world ended 5 days from now, the year will 2 days ago, Lucy left 2 days from now, I’ll get over it Yesterday was a Roman holiday Tomorrow, I have to go back to work Today, I took the day off anyway To celebrate my survival. 20 years from now, memory will shroud these days. So 20 minutes ago, I lit up a new day to remember December 26, 2012.

White and Blues

Ogden Nash remembered. I've written similar stuff as a kid.

I start up the computer to see the white and blue I never liked the blue so what do I do? I google far and long to right the blue that's wrongI fiddle with the screenuntil the red is green Now the whites are revolting, the blacks are amusing but oh noes what do I do? pink is the new blue Petrified by the situation of mistaken sexual orientation So I switch off the screen and partake of caffeine But I still don't like the...

Heavenly Light

Wrote this when I was 16. It's for someone I probably owe more than I admit.

I like this light that streams in through my  window and fills my heart  I don’t know what time of the day it is,  or where I am.  I can’t seem to attribute this light to any  particular time or place.  Nor can I identify or locate its childlike rays. This is what they must’ve had in mind  When they said ‘mellow’  and a lot of other things they didn’t say,  Because they had no names. Neither is the sun glowering at me  No...

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