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Can you see?

November 2, 2010
By Th3Wishless SILVER, Marshall, Wisconsin
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Th3Wishless SILVER, Marshall, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That&#039;s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.&rdquo;<br /> Chuck Palahniuk

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Can you see it?
The lonley lines of letters, lost in a lake of laughter?
Can you see it?
How the horrid, hatefull haze of humor hangs overhead?
Can you see it?
How the last laugh is leaked by his long lost love?
Can you see it?
His hidden hate?
Their mindless mockery?
His hollow hopes?
A shattered shell?
Can you see it?

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

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