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Time To Get A Grip

June 3, 2012
By _taylo SILVER, Wethersfield, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
"Everybody dies. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." - Chuck Palahniuk

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As the clock scurries ahead of me

I'm falling after it

It’s this part-run

part-chase

part-tumble

after the da** thing

leaving me in a dizzy, blurring state.

I chase so desperately

with attempts to capture

the one intangible thing.

What time is it?

© Carollynn G., Hawthorne, NY

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