I spent 3 hours yesterday in the ER waiting for a friend. In the room next to where they kept them was a man who'd been shot who was screaming thrashing and being generally uncooperative. Everyone was yelling, the nurses were threatening him, cops were restraining him. Go go newport news.

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4.1.2009

you leave me bitter
(breathless)

a slow seep of
grenadine and
grease fills
my evenings and
the places you
cannot

filling my mouth
is a bad taste
that i cannot
wash out

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Your rainbow is intensely shaded green, red, and orange.

What is says about you: You are a passionate person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. Others are amazed at how you don't give up.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

“ We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love… it is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
- W. Somerset Maugham

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Gaby stared down into the water, watching the muddy colored foam swirl with the lapping waves and the surge of garbage. He was riding out the tail end of a wicked trip and the dark waters and the silence of the dock soothed him. The fine layer of sweat on his skin glued his wild hair to his body, making him sticky. The thin body heaved as it ( Read more... )

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