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Ode to a Finger in an Automatic Door

July 26, 2010
By Escritoria BRONZE, Sugar Land, Texas
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Machine
Slow, inexorable,
Lumbering down its beaten track,
A vertical avalanche of crushing iron
Gears spinning their lives away
In a wall of mindless metal
No emotion, no remorse,
As it closes in
On your finger again.

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DreamChild said...
on Aug. 18 2010 at 12:39 pm
haha this is really funny(: nice work, keep it up
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on Aug. 18 2010 at 11:58 am
crubs33 DIAMOND, Lido Beach, New York
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