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thembraincells
Katie js
United States, Wisconsin, Brookfield

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Come back.

I can't fall down the stairs,
Cause I always get hurt,
And I can't fall up,
Cause I cant break the laws,
Of physics?

I can't sneak outta my house,
Cause my door creaks,
And my joints crack,
And I breathe too loud,
And I live on,
A wooded lot?

And when I talk I don't make much sense,
Cause I keep half my words inside,
You'll say "Hey I met this fellow..."
And I'll say
"My nailpolish keeps chipping"
Because fellow rhymes with yellow,
And yellow is my favorite color,
And I've been looking around for yellow nail polish,
When I realize I'll chip it off anyway,
And you'll look at me funny.
And I'll look at you like, "What? You don't have the same...
"Oh, sorry..."

Sometimes I can't walk right,
Because...
(I swear to god it's hereditary)
My knees always ache,
And my shins have splints,
And there was this one time in Kindergarten,
Oh wait...
I never went to Kindergarten.
In first grade I went,
Ice Skating...

And I fell on my ass,
Cause I am so clumsy,
And then when I talk to him,
I drop my stuff,
And don't watch where I am going.
Like I needed any other problems.

And I commit crimes,
Cause the adrenaline,
Makes me feel like I had a red bull,
And we never have any food around the house,
So it's like more fun then an energy drink.
And we toilet papered people...
Until we found out that it was easier to just..
Emotionally harass them?

And we made fun of people,
Till we discovered that...
It's more fun to just be nice,
And then we found out that,
People were afraid of us,
So it was more fun,
Cause we still had each other.

Then we found out there was more out there,
And now we sit in a circle on top of a..
Big hill?

And we try and find the milky way,
But the light pollution won't go away.

And we stay out late,
And we stay up late,
And I think I've slept an hour,
But it's been two days,
But I could really go for some Ice cream.

And there was this one time,
Oh wait...
What?
Come back back to me later.

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jcp200817 Comment by: jcp200817 - 2008-08-22 16:11
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This made my laugh all the way down. Written by a true poet herself. I don't think it should be changed in any way. Its perfect the way it is. =]
Wildefriend Comment by: Wildefriend - 2008-04-29 14:14
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I like this one too, but it seems to lose its way at the line--"And we made fun of people"

I think you need to recapture some of the structural integrity of the opening. Just my opinion. Perhaps where the piece begins with a bunch of "I can'ts", the end should have a bunch of "I cans"
mikepyro Comment by: mikepyro - 2008-04-28 21:38
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only prob is its a tad long, could be shortened a bit. that aside, wonderful work. had some great chuckles with this and makes the reader smile.

well done!
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