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If You Can Keep It Alive by Wes Thompson

12/2/2008 9:00:29 AM

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Wes Thompson ( Columbus, Ohio)

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If You Can Keep It Alive

midnight.
soft whispers;
I can't quite
make out what she's saying.
but she giggles.
from under the sheets,
trying to be quiet.
and I laugh at
myself,
to hide what I've lost.
what a charming
fucking
smile he has.
and I won't
tell her no.

Wes Thompson

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Frank James Ryan Jr. (3/6/2008 11:18:00 PM)
Succinct, yet compendious....Smooth, crisp & tight stanzaec structure makes for a grooved read.Nicev Work, Wes.

~ FjR ~

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