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  dear teachers

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  After some 11 odd years of schooling, during which I've had the chance of contemplating all the different views on the American educational system, here's what I've learned: it is, for the most part, a carbon-copy producing molding machine that is just waiting to get its hands on the ...
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  there's only one superman and i'm not him

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  For some to be extraordinary, many must be ordinary. This is merely logical, though it would appear that our modern society has deemed logic to be such an unworthy confinement as to disregard it wholly, tossing it out to the curb like yesterday's rubbish. Refusing to let common sense bring ...
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  the tale of the evil squirrel

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  Once upon a time there was a very valiant knight that went by the name of Sir Sebastian. Although Sir Sebastian was well liked by his fellow knights, who would have been more than happy to spend an evening with him in the local tavern drinking a pitcher of mead, Sir Sebastian spent most of his free ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  lights

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  The city lights blur into a clash of colors as you twirl. Your arms are spread, head tilted back, like when you were little. You laugh loud and free because there is no one to restrain yourself for here, just strangers with strange faces and strange smiles who grab your hands and spin you around and...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  alone

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  what are you saying I am saying, you because there are words sounds, unintelligible to me coming from parted lips yours, ruby red eyes like my mother on her death bed smile like a stranger's distant, you don't know me from over there on the other side of the earth that's really only ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  letting go

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  I want to click myself into your soul, become you just for a second, just for a second I want to tear off your clothes, so that I can unzip your skin and crawl inside I know there's room in there for me, just squeeze between your lungs until I take your breath away. You need enough air ...
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  i reign supreme

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  in my dreams never do I scream 'cause in my dreams I reign supreme vanquish every scary thing in my dreams where I am Queen I sit upon my throne of gold ensuring nothing's uncontrolled and hear the fairies their song sing in my dreams where I am Queen I wear a crown of daisy ...
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  i'll hold your hand

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  I'll hold your hand, I'll light the way but just until the break of day and then my love I have to go I'll say goodbye by mornings' glow I'll kiss your lips at suns' first ray If you just keep your tears at bay follow the path and you won't stray when dark...
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  you dream in black and white

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  his name was Samuel and he had hair like solid gold shining blinding yellow hay in a mess atop his head with the bluest eyes anyone had ever even saw left you wondering if that speck had been your soul cause only magic mirrors could reflect the sky like that his lips were pink and plump and sli...
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  the grand scheme of things

  

  By murkymurk, Miami, FL

  hey, outer space, can you hear me, from where I am, here on this speck of dust this spinning speck of dust in the grand scheme of things, that's all we are a spinning speck of dust an angry child's mental canvas all wild fingers and wasted cans of paint, wasted empty cans of memori...