uploaded July 19, 2013.
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Livin'
Trying to tie time to a bomb
Boom!
Kill its whole existence
For time sinks wrinkles into faces
It dries hair until it becomes colour-less, becomes gray
It makes eyes glassy
Family member disappear, fade away; they die
Back gives out until you're bound
Bound to a rockin'-chair that squeaks
A chair that only collects dust
No-one speaks
Time is no virtue
It's a slow death
The young forget about you
Till you forget about yourself
Forget who you once were
What you once looked like
What value you once had
Now you're bound
You're tied
Thanks to fuckin time
Boom!
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-anita and lulu ♥
Again, thank you for writing! We chose a few of your poems to publish in upcoming editions and will send copies to the address on your letter.
Is there any way you can send us a photo? We usually publish a photo of each author with their poem. If that's not possible, perhaps you can send a drawing to accompany your poem entitled, 'Meaning.' We'd like to publish that one in our Winter edition in January.
Also, the next time you write, please let us know how you prefer to be referred to in the byline with your poems. Usually we write the poet's name, some identifying characteristic like age or grade or occupation (maybe you could come up with something like 'poet between bars') or we could/should use your number? Let us know. Then we add city and state. We have that.
Thanks again SO much for writing us. The teen members of the magazine team and myself were really floored to get your letter. Your words encourage us to keep putting in the long hours and effort it takes to put the magazine together. To know how the stories impacted you, lets us know our efforts are worth it. We'll keep writing. You keep writing too! :)
~Jenee de Motivos
I really love your poems and I'm not just saying it cause you my primo.. I mean it and i know that one day you will be out here with us.. Your the one thats gonna be walking me down the aisle when I'm getting married. I hope I'm not making you cry because that is not the intention.. I know you will be the one for a fact and i don't want anybody else to take that part but you..
So please hang on there because there are people out here that care about you and are waiting you see...
~Valerie Andrade was here :)