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"Violent Lights"

May 13, 2014
By 17wkoch PLATINUM, Mequon, Wisconsin
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A number two pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

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I've taken screams
as loud as headlights flashing past me
on a midnight highway,
but I was ever hurt before the headlights ever
hit me

I take punches better than I take words

© Bethany P., West port, MA

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