Michael Timothy Rose

Michael Rose
English 101
'Fender Bender' Short Response
September 29,2009
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The life which I cannot matriculate to is empty philosophies in rivers
I argue over whether I have dipped into twice, over religions
I hate for the philosophies they cannot uphold, over religions I love
For the philosophies which they do, but over which I cannot comprehend without dis-
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I was happy
tonight;
and though the fire could have burned me
like a moth
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I am a planet,
I am a receptical of Sun,

If I do not recieve it,
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I have moist thoughts of you;
the weather changes when I
think of you
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I am enamored by
Words;
The way they metabolize
My emotions;
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This
grey square box
7in by 11in
hollow but filled with pixels
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Her hand runs down my face
like a cloth, softly molding to its contours,
cradling pains like a mother and reminding
me of love
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How do I bury
what is not dead,
but alive inside of me?
How do I kill
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I feel like
chapped lips,
dehydrated from a lack of care,
living recluse, absent,
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The world is not what you think.
However, the world is not without comprehending;
the first incomprehensible fact, though,
is so incomprehensible, nonetheless, we try our bests-
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The intimidating black
And emptiness
Of fearful surmise
Is permeated only by your footsteps,
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I am lost in the solace
of Asbury.
I have never heard
so many voices,
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Tears,
like flies,
can be trapped,
can be eaten.
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Where answers lay
Is where our roots
Most abundantly age,
At the lowest and most
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Between your two
bedazzling eyes,

cities culminate,
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I

“No matter of Wen”
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Faint ripples of meaning
And the idea of
A taste
In
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Where is the answer
Supposed

To be blown in the wind?
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