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whiterabbit
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Registered: Aug 2004

posted August 07, 2005 01:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for whiterabbit     Edit/Delete Message
if it started here, it would go like this:
you can't speak, unless you know who is listening
if i were a church, your church, you pass me by on your way
my bells would sound to you like grief
but that is not my voice
it is more like pages being turned, carelessly, with a lazy hand
then the train, no, the streetcar goes past and you miss it
you didn't hear
if it started again, it would sound like this:
nobody sings to nobody
our audiences are so varied, they sometimes laugh, sometimes cry
sometimes they ignore us, but ignoring, too, is listening
i'm quiet today, like light fabric over lovely knees that make you sigh
but i don't hear the sigh, i wasn't listening,
i was dreaming
if it ended now, it would speak to us and say:
you never stopped in the same place to hear each other,
you were too busy trying to hear each other
and the world was loud then, loud and heroic,
and you were too curious, too careless
you didn't learn about that story:
there is a time for words
and a time for silence
you were silent when you should have spoken
i just wanted to hear your voice
it's a mismatched pair of socks on a deck
half shade, half sunlight
then the rain made them both the same.
and i missed it.

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teaselbaby
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From: Northeast Ohio
Registered: Sep 2002

posted August 07, 2005 01:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teaselbaby     Edit/Delete Message
This is lovely.

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pixelpixie
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From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005

posted August 07, 2005 02:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pixelpixie     Edit/Delete Message
wow, you are so good.

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whiterabbit
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From: all over the place
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posted August 08, 2005 07:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for whiterabbit     Edit/Delete Message
thanks gals!

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26taurus
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posted August 08, 2005 07:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

Love it. Seriously.

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
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