You either have the feeling or you don't. Min, short for Minerva, was different. She wasn't artsy like they said and she definitely wasn't like any of Ed Slaterton's other girlfriends. Ed, the co-captain of the basketball team, had more to him than what met the eye, both good and...
?Powdered sugar from the sky
?Falling to this Earthly pie
?A view beyond
?It's mesmerizing
?Soon a lemon tart in hiding
?Sour when you take a bite
?But the after taste
?A sweet blueberry
?From the height
?Post summer viscidity
?A season staying adventively....
A suspense so aggravating
Can't eat
Can't sleep
Staring down the clock
As seconds
Slow, slow seconds
Tick by
Seconds turn to minutes
Slow, slow minutes
And finally
After your brain
Nearly melts
And flows out your ears
From the wait
It arrives
And the clock is forgotten
The...
They feel better when he's down
Even better when it's their fault
Throw his dignity to the ground
With every jeer they put out
They tease him because he's smart
And his voice is too high
They tease him because he's poor
And his clothes aren't the right size
The o...
A knife scraping inside of me
Hidden well so you can not see
This pain was never self inflicted
Every speck of hope evicted
You pulled the wool over my eyes
In order to hide all your lies
I only wish that I had known
That all my freedom had just flown
The second I replied to you
But it was ...
Stereotypical and conceited
So unfair and they don't even see it
Stuck behind a curtain
A world so dull and bleak
Unable to behold the potential
Plainly visible where they don't see....
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