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Letter

May 26, 2009
By Fangz PLATINUM, Ware, Massachusetts
Fangz PLATINUM, Ware, Massachusetts
37 articles 15 photos 107 comments

Favorite Quote:
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas.


Writing a letter to cell block eight
Still trying to get the sad story straight
Scribing pacifying lies
"I'm sorry if this arrives too late"

She asks me to brighten the gray
To shed light on a jailbird's day
Though I do not feel so inclined
I send her drawings anyway

She writes about our memories
Which I term awkward travesties
of nights with atoraxia
via illicit amenities

Of smoky rooms and copper wire
Broken glass tubes and acrid fire
Statutory infidelity
Among four lesbians-for-hire

Of weekends spent in a dank daze
Of schitzo fits and purple haze
Of drinking games in trailer parks
And perverse affection before-plays

Its obvious that she used me
She pretended I was someone else
- the woman who brought me to be

This is the last letter she'll get
I will no longer pay another's debt
This is the last she'll hear from me
And I mean that sincerely.


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Fangz PLATINUM said...
on Sep. 9 2009 at 12:43 pm
Fangz PLATINUM, Ware, Massachusetts
37 articles 15 photos 107 comments

Favorite Quote:
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas.

Thanks for the feedback. I made a mistake when posting this one; in the second to last stanza the second line is missing, which is "the sex was had vicariously"

on Aug. 23 2009 at 5:22 pm
jennee21_ann GOLD, Helper, Utah
17 articles 0 photos 568 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul....wisdom is better than silver or gold."

"You can always close a book, but you can never close the mind of a writer."

whoa. uhm, very deep filled will lots of emotion. very sad, but so powerful. i really like it. you gave the reader a lot to think about with each stanza..i like those poems :) wow, just a great job here. 5 stars! check out and comment/rate some of my work, i love the feedback. keep writing :)