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Leanne Lieu

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

3 poems·Since May 2013
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This is Why I Write

June 24, 2013

"Get out my face!"

"This ain't yo place!"

"Out my way, snitch!"

"You in my territory now, bitch!"

 

Unacceptable.

Rejectable.

Miserable.

Disposable.

 

Painful.

Dreadful.

Emotions in porcelain dolls.

When released, like a waterfall.

 

Hidden in a dark, forbidden place.

Race! Race! Race!

Faaaaaaaaaal! Doooooooooooooow-!

Assemble! NOW! NOW!

 

You! over there!

You two! over here!

All is assimilated.

A masterpiece is created.

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