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  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:29:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>beginnings</title>
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  <description>&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot; name=&quot;country-region&quot;&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot; name=&quot;City&quot;&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri=&quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot; name=&quot;place&quot;&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Why does it still irritate me, things in the past, things that were beyond my control in the first place?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m hurt, but I&amp;rsquo;m recovering.&lt;br /&gt;I am me, and I am every single one of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;It happens so, so very differently every single time. Love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Yet, it&amp;rsquo;s the same.&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s all the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I want to be &lt;i style=&quot;&quot;&gt;loved&lt;/i&gt;. I get &lt;i style=&quot;&quot;&gt;obsessed&lt;/i&gt; with the concept.&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smile for me, sugar. I think I&amp;rsquo;ll be okay so long as you smile at me. Hold it. Freeze. Don&apos;t stop. Love me. Give me the capacity of your lungs.&lt;/p&gt;                                                                            </description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:30:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>wash</title>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;I&amp;nbsp;think I&apos;ll just&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let it all &lt;strong&gt;wash away.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time is too valuable to be spent worrying about such things. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll do my work -- do what I&amp;nbsp;have to do -- so that I&amp;nbsp;can forget about all of this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And eventually, I&apos;ll forget your kindness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was wrong anyway, about a lot of things. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just who I&amp;nbsp;am. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve let you down, just as I&amp;nbsp;have the others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder when I&apos;ll finally start learning from my mistakes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From here on, I&apos;m &lt;u&gt;tired. &lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:18:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fear</title>
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  <description>I&amp;nbsp;hate you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You scare the hell out of me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just go away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turn away. I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t want to look at you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t want to hear you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hate you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t touch me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t give me that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t speak so softly to me. Don&apos;t tell me these things. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;hate you... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;strike&gt;but the truth is, I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t really hate you at all. &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;want to be alone. I&apos;m afraid, and I&amp;nbsp;want to be alone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why can&apos;t you see that? Why do you have to keep trying? &lt;br /&gt;Why do you keep watching me fall? Every time, always, why are you there to catch me? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;re so stupid, with your stupid voice, and your stupid shirt, and your stupid way of smiling like it&apos;s the easiest thing in the world to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m such an idiot. &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:19:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>all the same</title>
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  <description>She asks, &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Are you happy?&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He asks, &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;wtf is up with you?&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say, &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;I don&apos;t know.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He says, &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Learn to take a compliment.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She says, &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;You&apos;re a cynic to everyone sometimes, dear.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I say, &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I know.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s all the same. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I&apos;ve just forgotten. &lt;br /&gt;Maybe I&apos;m forgetting how to breathe.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:40:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Come on, come out ♫</title>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It all goes...passing by... &lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;middle&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs17/f/2007/204/c/2/Hearts_Divider_by_SakuranboAi.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some days when I feel so awkward in my own skin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, it&apos;s okay, because I know I have people who love me as I am. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of my social lameness --- the stumbling over my own two feet, the stuttering of words...what makes me feel at home is when I have friends who can just swiftly take the pain away with a simple hello. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I just want to let the tears flow, because I&apos;m never sure if I&apos;m happy or sad. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aishiteru. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really, really...love... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Everything&apos;s going to be okay.&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:07:53 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I&amp;nbsp;want to bury myself in the sand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to fall into the sea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;want to drive into the sun, and disappear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;want to explode in the hot, hot heat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t want to ignore it anymore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don&apos;t love me. Please turn away from me. I know you can. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it distance that brings us closer, or is it the absence of truth that makes us forget? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I prefer the lie any day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;want to believe that we&apos;re stitched together by the strongest of threads, forever...forever...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reality, we&apos;re so terribly worn... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fraying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slowly, painfully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;♪ ♫ &lt;em&gt;I&amp;nbsp;want to turn this all around now, take a step down. How can we all get along? We were so violent and young... &lt;/em&gt;♫&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:38:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Nineteen</title>
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  <description>Grandma&apos;s friend Allis came over today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somehow they were talking about birthdays, and then mine came up (again). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every time that word comes up, I feel like I&apos;m getting swiftly stabbed in the chest with a plastic butter knife. &amp;gt;__&amp;lt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, Allis says, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Nineteen... *whistles* That&apos;s a beautiful age. I got married at 19, y&apos;know.&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeesh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*snort* Then my Grandma chimes in, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Never do it.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hahaha. Oooh, young love. I can&apos;t say I disagree.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>vanilla yogurt raisins</title>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonafoster/3660857645/&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1879/raisinsh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Urgh. So freakin addicting. *___*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s funny; last time I checked, I hated raisins. I guess a little sugar really can go a long way. &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>consistent inconsistencies</title>
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  <description>&lt;font face=&quot;georgia&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;But the truth was, [she] hated details.&lt;strong&gt; She loved to plunge into projects, tackle them for about ten minutes, and then lose interest.&lt;/strong&gt; All around our house were little piles of things that had once held her attention: aromatherapy kits, family tree software, stacks of Japanese cookbooks, an aquarium with four sides covered in algae and one sole survivor, a fat white fish who had eaten all the others.&amp;quot; ---&lt;em&gt;This Lullaby&lt;/em&gt;, Sarah Dessen&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha. Oh, going back to old books is fun, especially when you find little brilliant lines such as this. I almost forgot how much I&amp;nbsp;loved Sarah Dessen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this doesn&apos;t perfectly describe my consistent inconsistencies, I don&apos;t know what could. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many things left unfinished... I&apos;m such a scatter-brain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-small;&quot;&gt;Ah well. I&apos;m cut off from reading, I suppose. *grumbles* &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;Little brother next door is trying to sleep. I&apos;m already sick of these living conditions. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow&apos;s a new day. Here&apos;s wishing for something &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;beautiful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>an old lonely Valentine</title>
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  <description>Little notes like these seem to be popping up all over the place lately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found this one buried in my closet, in a box, beneath a mass of other boxes. Tied with a red bow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I was lonely, even from the start of it all. It&apos;s in the past now. It reads: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I don&apos;t come off the way I&apos;d like to. Don&apos;t you wish we could just &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;be&lt;/span&gt; who we are without feeling this strange compulsion to hide beneath a mask of what we&apos;ve been programmed to think we&apos;re supposed to be? . . . I&apos;m rendered useless. . . . Am I wasting my time on a fleeting dream? . . .&lt;strong&gt; I simply hate the fact of knowing his feelings, yet realizing that he does not - and could not - comprehend just how much I suffer from this. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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