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Unassailable Mortality

October 22, 2012
By perpetuallydancing GOLD, Prairie Village, Kansas
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&quot;If you don&#039;t have any shadows, you&#039;re not standing in the light.&quot;<br /> - Lady Gaga

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I got tired of
danger and so now
I spend my nights in twentyfour hour
diners,
drowning my ever raucous
thoughts in black coffee and
attempting to quell my
infatuation with precipice. I smear
ink into paper instead of
mascara down my
cheeks.

© Emily E., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
This piece details my reclusion into myself following a traumatic event. I restrained myself from everything even remotely hazardous; whether that is a good or bad thing is up to the reader.
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