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Actually, it does.

September 22, 2011
By LiquidSky PLATINUM, Libby, Montana
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. <br /> -Carl Sandberg

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"It doesn't matter" I said, lying through my teeth, and letting the falsehood slip between my lips and float up towards the ceiling, like the nicotine infused wisps from a chain smoker who lit up, like my words, out of pure desperation and need for distraction.

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