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the writer’s fate MAG

September 15, 2013
By hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
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Favorite Quote:
&#039;Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.&#039;<br /> ― Virginia Woolf, &#039;A Room of One&#039;s Own&#039;


upstairs, sitting smugly on mahogany,
is a typewriter that's punching in my dreams
and draining my soul like a broken tap;
that “drip-click-drip-click” is tearing
my seams.

the carriage returns;
i crumble.



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on Sep. 19 2013 at 3:40 pm
hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
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Favorite Quote:
&#039;Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.&#039;<br /> ― Virginia Woolf, &#039;A Room of One&#039;s Own&#039;

thank you thank you you always have the nicest comments :3

Mckay ELITE said...
on Sep. 19 2013 at 11:55 am
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.&quot;<br /> &mdash;Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Think Different&rdquo; commercial, 1997<br /> &ldquo;Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn&#039;t understood.&rdquo; <br /> ― Weihui Zhou

It's been so long since I last read one of your work. Forgive me for that. Congrats on the Editors' choice. I love the imagery and emotion in this poem. (I think I say that a lot; but I mean it.) The onomonpia with the "drip-click-drip-click" makes the poem come to life. And the ending is sad and unfortunate...but marverlous, all at once. Well done.