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August 30, 2013
~grew-up-a-screw-up has been a consistently-suggested writer suggested by many deviants, and it's no wonder that with poems like Anonymous and the other amazing work in her gallery that this is so.
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I am the girl who hides between moth eaten paper backs
And slips into bookstores and devours leather bound spines
I am chloroform lips bitten down, red and rosy
Ink stained finger tips that fold book pages between my pupils

I'm the girl who drowns herself in coffee and cough drops
While remaining curled between Tennyson and Steinbeck
Wasting days wondering why grass is green
And how it can be greener for others and not I

Then I realized its all artificial food colouring
And polystyrene picket fences
Sticky notes yellowed at the edges reminding myself how to smile
I've pasted them on my skin in makeshift paper Mache armour
But like all mangled words I will be thrown inside a wastebasket
Saved for a rainy day
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rikesh's avatar

Beautiful words, may favourite lines are:


Wasting days wondering why grass is green

And how it can be greener for others and not I


I've been there many times, wondering why it's me who suffers and not others or have the misfortune that I have to endure.