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Lit of the Week 46! Sammur-amat, wordsmith94 and PrideofPanem 

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10 deviants said regardless of where and which roads (write)i. so today we get together
   as per your request
   today you (at last) confess to me

   i watch you narrate

   the e.e. cummings you've
   kept chained in your rhythm,
   in your beats and paces and all other nooks
   and crooks
   and hidden places

   i've secretly always known existed

   i want you to start writing today

ii. you tell me you believe
    in your ability
    to write the words i always knew you whispered;
    steaming at the hearts of other girls
    turning them to froth
    while i watch my own heart
    shrivel like dregs
    in the same cup of cappuccino

    i've always been drinking off drought

iii. i am sc
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7 deviants said DisillusionedBlack streets in the dawning light
we punch out dissonant tap dances 
in high heels grinding out freedom
on the south side of suburbia
we remember the lost stars
and wonder if we're just faking,
or if our souls have curled up 
in the night and relinquished
 their heartbeats to the sound
of the storms of traffic.
Cultural obsessions hold bottles
of vodka, wishing they could feel
the bacterial cultures bunching 
in their battered chests.
Hyper but flaccid 
we slump behind screens 
and pour out missives in broken english
pushing keys into our fingers 
slip sliding into madness 
and sadness, and when we die,
we do it for the lulz. 
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5 deviants said The Passenger"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey.
They are home."
– Anna Quindlen

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"…my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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PART ONE: THE DRIVER

The C.A.N.O.N. Bus Company had been renowned for its patented use of characterised bus-seats since 1971, but Mrs. Gallag

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=Sammur-amat Nov 10, 2012   General Artist
Thank you for the exposure:heart:
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