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"This Isn't A Picture Opportunity"

August 6, 2010
By theUnknownandtheAnonymous PLATINUM, Stockton, California
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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

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I feel like a deer
Caught in front of headlights
Only with a thousand eyes
Waiting for me to move

They cheer when I lift a finger
Sigh when you say stop once more
"This isn't a picture opportunity!"

In a picture
Time stands still
It points out a fail and a flaw
You've taken thousands
And thousands
To the point where pieces of my soul
Pieces of me
Get's taken away
Into the inner depths of those polaroids

Put down the camera
And just enjoy the scenery

© Zachary P., Brooklyn, NY

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