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I wrote this for a stupid contest in a magazine, and I wanted to write something better than what my mom wrote (a emo poem about a schizo woman). My only limits was that it had to be 24 lines or less.


My first poem, I only wrote three lines until I scrapped it.



It really sucked, and I was too busy watching Best Week Ever to really think, though I did write a haiku...



He was two hours late for his own concert, and people were pissed and threw glowsticks at him. I knew that it wasn't serious enough to be submitted, so I wrote From Death, to the Loved instead. Originaly, it was supposed to be from the point of view of one of my characters. He is murdered on the day of his wedding, and from the afterworld he looks back and sees his wife crying. He's a big pacifist, but he all of a sudden has all these dark and violent feelings towards the murderers, and that's something that follows him through for awhile. After reading it a couple of times through and editing it so that it flowed better, now it sounds like some emo guy killed himself to free himself from the pain of whatever, and now he regrets doing so because "she" is in despair that he's gone.
It still makes sense, so hoorah for me!

To whoever managed to read all the way to the end, comment on whatever three of the poems that you want, especially the first.

P.S. I'm not an emo or anything, I just had no idea what to write, so I just took a scene from my books and went with it.