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M dlR wrote about the word shape 2 years, 2 months ago
I’m in shape!
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M dlR wrote about the word wander 2 years, 2 months ago
Wander wonder
Wonderland–
Someone told me that was the meaning of life. That the natural state of man was inherently curious–we were meant to wander and wonder, to explore the world and to want to learn as much as we can.So why am I in Spanish class, bored and on the Internet?
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M dlR wrote about the word barber 2 years, 3 months ago
You used to love my hair. That’s what you said, anyway–it was one of my best features, you said, and then you’d run your fingers through the strands like you’d never seen anything like them before–and when you accidentally got tangled in a clump, your face looked so innocently apologetic. Like you were worried you’d [...]
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M dlR wrote about the word bench 2 years, 3 months ago
so there’s this park, right, and in this park there’s a bench (sheltered by some trees, but the trees aren’t really important to this story) and there’s a boy who comes every weekend (saturday afternoons, always exactly at 4) and sits there and i take a walk every weekend (saturday afternoons, always around 4) and [...]
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M dlR wrote about the word wrench 2 years, 3 months ago
screwdriver, hammer, bolt, wrench–
i wrench myself away
from you
because i don’t (can’t) want this anymore
it’s not enough, you (or maybe it’s me or we) are not enough
the last bolt is tightened -
M dlR wrote about the word jelly 2 years, 3 months ago
that’s what my legs are–
jelly jelly jelly–
shaking so much i can barely walk in a straight line.i manage, though, and i walk
one step, then another, and another
and yet i’m not getting anywhere. -
M dlR wrote about the word dropped 2 years, 3 months ago
The glass fell and shattered. She supposed she should do something about it, really, about all the glittering shards lying on the floor. That’s what one did, wasn’t it? Picked up the pieces and threw them in the trash and moved on with one’s life? But she wasn’t the one who dropped it in the [...]
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M dlR wrote about the word basement 2 years, 4 months ago
So I’m supposed to be reading “Death of a Salesman” for English, right, but I can’t. I don’t know why. I just can’t. It’s like… like playing hide-and-seek in the basement, and someone finds you, and you’re It, so you count and everything. But when you open your eyes again no one’s there, and you [...]
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M dlR wrote about the word rocket 2 years, 4 months ago
I have actually finished almost everything I wanted to accomplish today!
I’m headed for the moon, baby. -
M dlR wrote about the word solved 2 years, 4 months ago
It’s that nice feeling when an answer to a math problem just works perfectly, and it clicks, and it’s beautiful.
Or maybe it’s a crossword puzzle, or sudoku, or a jumble, and you even did it in pen.if only life was as simple as it is on paper.
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M dlR wrote about the word furnace 2 years, 4 months ago
warm
like a coat
like a mother’s hug
and it burns, it burns
(said elphaba, the green–wicked? maybe that, too–witch of the west)
like salt in a cut
but furnaces are supposed to be warm, aren’t they?
warm, warm, warm
what i would give to be warm right now
i hate winter. -
M dlR wrote about the word sidetracked 2 years, 4 months ago
i got sidetracked by the color in your eyes
looks like something wonderful
the color of amazing
i got sidetracked by youtube and facebook and life
sidetracked by life? at least, that’s my excuse.
distraction, deflection, disconnection.
reflect, refract, sidetracked on the way. -
M dlR wrote about the word: juice 2 years, 6 months ago
it reminds me of the philippines–of home.
all different kinds (pineapple and mango and kalamansi), tasty and wonderful and delicious, and it would dribble down our chins as we laughed at each other (that’s what our family was always like) in the humid heat, and i remember it all. -
M dlR became a registered member 2 years, 6 months ago
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